Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Lieut. William Woodward Outerbridge, worrying about his first command, gave the orders which fired the first U.S. shot in the war. On patrol outside the harbor, in the murky dawn of Dec. 7, he sent his report: his ancient destroyer, the Ward, had shelled arid depth-charged a submarine. His superiors thought it was "impossible...
...spite of his seven-league-boot habits of scholarship and composition, Will Durant is a master of synthesis arid luminous narrative. Caesar and Christ, third volume of the monumental Story of Civilization which he expects to finish by 1955 (already published: Our Oriental Heritage; The Life of Greece), may lack moral passion. But as clear exposition of an immensely complicated story, it is magnificent...
...traded the pistol to an officer for eight quarts of whiskey he had lugged out from the U.S. (the whiskey had cost the officer $2 a bottle, but the private could get $75 a bottle for it in the arid Admiralties...
...make this sentence stick as something more than a sentence torn out of context, Candidate Dewey pointed out that in traveling "down that New Deal road" there are now "55 Government corporations arid credit agencies with net assets of $27,000,000,000," that the Government now owns or operates one-fifth of all the manufacturing plants in the U.S. (Actually, most of these are war plants.) Governor Dewey charged that thus "little by little, the New Deal is developing its own form of corporate state." That, said Candidate Dewey, was why Comrade Browder favors Term IV -that...
Dreary Epilogue? Were Nazi babblings of "peace terms" and "withdrawal" a smokescreen?-another desperate stall for time? One thing was certain. Hitler & Co. were still on top, arid so long as they stayed on top there could be no peace. Heinrich Himmler was preparing a fanatical home army to fight the final battle between the Oder and the Rhine, and to fight on as guerrillas after the last battle was lost. The Allies, east and west, needed to get into Germany as soon as possible, to upset these preparations before they became effective. Otherwise the war might drag...