Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere, except in Latin America, where New Year's is likely to be one of the hottest days of summer, celebrations will be mainly on a catch-as-catch-can basis. In Athens, the Robert Lows could figure on no central heating after ten o'clock, candlelight after 1 a.m., and no dancing at all (forbidden because of Greece's "cold war"). In divided, blockaded Berlin, under the now familiar drone of the airlift planes, most bureau-men planned to spend New Year's quietly at home, or, more likely, out covering the news. In Shanghai...
...military crisis was not easing. On the central front all action had bogged down in snow and mud. Bad weather prevented government planes from dropping supplies to their forces trapped north of the Huai. South of the river, Nanking's wretched defenders struggled eastward to block a Communist thrust to the Yangtze between the capital and Shanghai...
Patient Man. Tacho pictured himself a man of infinite patience. His Guardia Nacional, charged by the Costa Ricans with equipping and backing the invasion, was actually "the keeper of the peace in Central America." (In less sensitive times, Tacho had been known to boast that the crack Guardia could get him to San José in three days...
...well believe in fairies, those despicable creations of Wall Street . . . You might even see a Santa Claus. But what would that prove? It would be no sign he was there! The most real things in the world are those a child never sees but is told about by the Central Committee . . . Ah, Virginia, in all the world there is nothing real or abiding unless you get it officially from the Kremlin. Santa Claus! Phooey! Thank Karl Marx, thank Lenin, thank Stalin, thank Vishinsky, thank Molotov, thank Gromyko, he was eliminated years ago forever...
...radical trilogy, U.S.A., as a powerful plea for America's underprivileged. Written at a time when social novelists were likely to have more anger than talent, U.S.A. was a major literary achievement. Perhaps for the first time, an American novelist chose society as a whole as his central figure and used individual characters as mere illustrations for his thesis that America had been skidding downhill, socially and morally, since World...