Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment, UNO-mankind's fragile new device of peace-might fall apart beneath the weight of Russia's postwar drive to translate victory into expansion...
Said "Monsieur Helium": "European scientists have been forced to halt their experiments because of the frightful danger of a chain of atomic explosions which may cause the world to fly apart...
...childhood sweethearts, Olive Ewing and Raymond Clapper lived a block apart in Kansas City's (Kan.) packinghouse district. The grocer's daughter and the laborer's son went to the same Sunday school, the same high school. One day when Olive had just turned 17, they kept a date on a streetcar. She told him her father's ultimatum: stop seeing-that Clapper boy, or you'll be sent away to stay with relatives. Said Ray: "Let's get married...
Somewhere between the rise of the New Deal and World War II, the U.S. as a community fell apart. No chart registered the collapse more quickly and more clinically than U.S. literature. World War I had been preceded and followed by unprecedented bursts of U.S. writing. The American Renaissance, as it was bravely called, was studded with innovators like Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, Vachel Lindsay, Sinclair Lewis, and with solidly good writers like Willa Gather and Ellen Glasgow. Their books were often fiercely critical of U.S. mores and motives...
...former Governor Henry Wilder Keyes, and author of some 23 books, including 1943's best-selling Crescent Carnival. In Louisiana in 1939, she was impressed by the old River Road between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Most of its once gracious plantation houses were boarded up or falling apart; most of their predominantly Creole, sugar-planting owners had moved on. But among the thronging revenants in this graveyard of a once graceful provincial culture, there were a few surviving residents. Novelist Keyes decided to report their struggle to survive...