Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College's veteran janitor believes that the students still consume their scotch and soda with the customary gusto, they have lost a tride of the barbarism which exposed itself thirty years ago. He used always to see lines of women's intimate belongings strung out along lines from Little Block to posts on the other side of the street...
Young Captain Patrick Bannon, a "sound chip off an old Gloucester block" ("God rest his iron soul"), is a Reservist whom the Navy has told to "fish a little longer." Obeying the order with a true seaman's pleasure ("his mighty nose snuffed up the spray's champagne"), he takes the "sweet sailer and . . . good earner" Daniel Webster out to the Grand Banks with a weather eye peeled for wartime trouble. Aboard are two new men, Danes by their claim-Conrad and Holger...
...mourns too loudly and whom Conrad deduces, from their pallor and their oily hands, to be U-boat engineers executed for a breach of discipline. The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for Halifax with a cargo of rum. But Bannon notices that the shell wounds were made with axes and he suspects the cargo...
...Aunt Madzia rolled bandages for the hospitals-clean at first, then nicely laundered, then, "yellowish and frayed, some had horrible half-washed streaks on them." The cook and an unpleasant refugee named Mrs. Gruda worked and reveled together over atrocity stories, while with loud laughter the children built block cities and destroyed them. In the evenings, the Langers took heart in the speeches of their Mayor Starzynski...
Immediately moderate isolationists, including Taft and Vandenberg, as well as the old diehards, Johnson and Nye, flocked to their yellow banner. By ignoring the Administration's announced distinction between political commitments, treaties and economic arrangements as legislation, they give away their intentions to block post-war lend-lease agreements. Nye, swollen with the arrogance of aroused fury has even gone so far as to boast that "there isn't a ghost of a chance of a military-political alliance" after the war, between the United States and Great Britain...