Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was a long debate over the barricades-in frightful tension, sleepless preparation, with frontiers closed and armies mobilized, the Pause of Guilt began. Over the darkened cities that had become haunted and despairing islands of last nights together, of work never to be done, of books unwritten, of children unseen, of dreams unfulfilled, over the countless acres of anguish, the ghosts of the last war and the ghosts of the next joined to gain an instant more...
...turn for the worse. There was no great cheering crowd at the Chancellery. Cafes were practically empty. Nerves grew taut. Over the radio Nazi Deputy Rudolph Hess openly talked of the chance of war, roared that if it comes, "it will be terrible." In the Pankow District School some children heard the howl of a siren, remembered their air raid instructions, filed rapidly out. But it was only a factory whistle down the street...
...gloom which had been gathering inside him for more than a year. As the official eyes, ears, head and heart of the U. S. in Great Britain, it seemed that he was at last about to behold that unspeakable spectacle which he had dreaded: totalitarian war in which women & children, the aged and the ill, civilians as well as military, orders sacred and orders profane, would all be devastated regardless. Ambassador Joe Kennedy returned to a Britain preparing for death on a scale it believed impossible to exaggerate. Yet Britain was calm, methodical, at moments almost whimsical-completely different from...
...casualties per week. Some 250 big suburban busses were transformed into ambulances. Hospitals ringed the city, first-aid stations honeycombed it. But these preparations were only for a London that was to be relatively empty 48 hours after hell should erupt. Evacuation plans for all nonessential workers, for mothers & children, old people, invalids, were set and published. Beauty parlors were crammed with women seeking one last hairdo before fleeing to safety or reporting for emergency jobs...
...Popular 36-year-old Glenna Collett Vare, who, still playing a superb game-although golf clubs are now secondary to her two children, her bird dogs and her shotguns-was eliminated in the first round of match play by a schoolgirl named Marion Brown...