Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain is worried. The British people have a bond of liking and sympathy for the Russian people which the ascendancy of the Soviet Union can hardly lessen. But they and their Government are increasingly concerned about the tremendous effect which a "Russian Europe" must have on Britain's world position. They cannot ignore the historical fact that pre-eminence or at least equality of power on the Continent has long been accounted essential to Britain's safety. Even in western Europe, they know that they must now fight politically to regain, and then to retain, a very minimum...
...thrifty characters of the first platoon who subscribed 100 per cent to War Bond allotments look down on their wastrel classmates...
...hopefully declared to Congress last week (see p. 21), "there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power." The hopes of millions for such a world may be shattered unless these three great personal leaders succeed in establishing among themselves a solid bond of confidence in each other's good faith and good will...
...lived through the most spine-tingling experiences imaginable, on all possible battlefronts (strafing Nazi tanks in North Africa, being rescued by the French underground after a crash landing in occupied Europe, shooting it out with Jap Zeros over the South Pacific). When red-haired young Holdeman spoke at war-bond rallies in Booneville, Tupelo, Okolona and a dozen other towns, women sobbed openly and strong men rose en masse to subscribe the limit. He was the best war-bond salesman that ever hit the state...
After a three-month whirlwind Bond-selling tour of Mississippi towns (eating the best food at the tables of the best citizens), Roscoe Mayo Holdeman was taken into custody by the FBI. Holdeman had spent one year in the Army as a flying cadet. Last June he was given a medical discharge. He had never been outside the U.S. Unimpressed by his record as the smoothest, fastest, most effective bond salesman in Mississippi, the FBI locked ex-Cadet Holdeman up on charges of impersonating a U.S. Army officer...