Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind blew fitfully; long swells rolled outside the breakwater. The Presidential yacht Potomac, armed for the first time with .50-calibre machine guns fore & aft, prepared to cast off, tied up again at reports of rougher weather coming. From the rail of the Arauca, the 44 interned German sailors watched the drinks being passed around on the Potomac's afterdeck, stared at the Presidential party-Harry Hopkins, Cabinet Officers Robert Jackson and Harold Ickes, the President's physician, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire, Secretaries "Pa" Watson and Steve Early...
Meanwhile in the Senate chamber the vote was a tie, 32-to-32. The Vice President, no one else, can break a tie: it is the only time he can cast a ballot. When the Vice President failed to appear, by the rules of the Senate the measure was put down as defeated. Not until it was too late did anyone tell Mr. Wallace...
...this same pregnant strife the United States doubtless will be led, by undeniable interests and aroused national sympathies, to play a part, to cast aside the policy of isolation which befitted her infancy, and to recognize that . . . now to take her share of the travail of Europe is but to assume an inevitable task ... in the work of upholding the common interests of civilization...
...17th-century dictatorship of the Puritans, thinks Burke, cast a blight over these high spirits from which London never recovered. Its energy remained; its gayety did not. In the 18th century, London girls no longer went maying into the fields to be deflowered; instead May Day workmen cadged pennies around town like little boys; Elizabethan violence gave way to the swinish japes of the well-born "Mohocks" and Regency bucks. Industrialism thickened London's misery and thinned its spirits still more. Victorian street children (next to Victorian factory children) were the most wretched in England's history...
...same time, Washington cast a calculating eye toward the 79 German, Italian, French and Danish ships (559,233 tons) laid up in U.S. ports. Up to now, the only thing which has kept these vessels out of service to the democracies has been the conservatism of State Department ideologues like its International Economic Adviser, backward-leaning Herbert Feis, who disapproves of seizure (as unneutral). Last week it looked as if the Department's die-hard holdouts could not succeed much longer. South American countries, whose ports shelter 90 other ships belonging to the Axis and its vassals, are also...