Word: cataract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continent went down a cataract...
...when King Prajadhipok of Siam came to the U.S. for treatment of his cataract, Edgar Burchell was an expert in eye, ear, nose & throat bacteriology and pathology. It was he who determined that the little king's eye was free from dangerous bacteria and could safely be operated...
...better and more exciting soldiering life is past. Peace gave us bread and honest advancement. We have no reason to love war and we don't fight with the dizzy enthusiasm shown in 1870 and 1914. We love our work and know that war is a roaring cataract between us and our future. We hate it because it steals precious years, banishes our life aims to an unknown future and upsets all our plans. But because of this hate we must say yes to it. ... Our enemies can hardly even attempt to demand this...
Reasons for the cataract of oversubscriptions were varied, some good, some dubious: 1) banks and investors had become at least temporarily reconciled to the present interest rate; 2) Government borrowings have fantastically increased the banks' capacity to lend; 3) in order to get the amount of notes they actually wanted, banks and investors subscribed for more than they expected to get, thus inflating the size of the oversubscription...
...shelved President Ortiz had sat in his darkened mansion on the Calle Suipacha like a weakening but stubbornly weaving spider. He can make little; but he can prevent much. A 16-insulin-unit-per-day diabetic, with one eye permanently blind, the other four-fifths blacked out by diabetic cataract, he cannot control, but will not let go of, Argentine politics. The much he can prevent is a unanimous Government-bloc support to Acting President Ramon S. Castillo's policy of refusing belligerent collaboration with the Allies. Between President Ortiz and ex-President Agustin P. Justo, Argentine...