Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because the voters are called upon to decide questions that vitally affect U. S. governmental forms and the U. S. economic system. At stake is the third term and the economic policies of the New Deal; to The Christian Century they are inextricably linked. "The traditional barrier against more than two terms for any President reflects the instinctive opposition of American democracy to fascism." Though Jefferson did not know the word "fascism," he knew absolutism; protection against it in U. S. democracy depended on the patriotic honor of democratic leaders...
...Among the islands where Britain will lease air or naval bases to the U. S. are: 1. St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Thomas, Bermuda, Newfoundland. 2. Trinidad, Antigua, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Jamaica. 3. Trinidad, Martinique, Bermuda, Jamaica, Newfoundland. 4. Cocos, Bermuda, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbadoes. 5. Newfoundland, Guantanamo, Great Barrier Reef, Trinidad, Bahamas...
Last summer the Russians annexed a piece of Rumania, thereby advancing their frontier from the Dniester to the Pruth River, thereby putting one more river barrier in front of an invader from this direction...
...Belgium, men without identification papers, passports, even names. Most of them were Communists, but there were few Russians among them. They believed they were fighting to save democracy from fascism. In their political innocence and lack of military equipment, they were determined, if necessary, to make a living barrier of their bodies to keep Franco's Moors out of Madrid. They did. Most of them were killed. Their successors, chiefly Americans, were later terribly routed at Teruel; Alvah Bessie described their extermination in a powerful book, Men in Battle. But until Gustav Regler published The Great Crusade this week...
...three, four . . . thirteen, fourteen, Go!" Up went the barrier and off went nine of America's fastest three-year-old trotters-with a rataplan dear to U. S. horse lovers. It was the Hambletonian, richest and most famed of the 25,000 harness races held in the U. S. every summer. In the stands, drawn from far & near to New York's drowsy little village of Goshen, 30,000 fans craned their necks for a glimpse of the start...