Word: cordiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marked a definite swing to the Right, with a promise of more cordial relations with...
...Marine, Air Minister, Minister of Education. In 1938 he proclaimed himself "Premier for life." But unlike the Axis dictators, he fomented no wars, rarely made speeches, indulged in no pageantry, maintained no sycophants to shout his praises. He sought friendship with all his Balkan neighbors and cemented a cordial entente with Greece's traditional enemy, Turkey. He was a hardheaded, hardworking, unpretentious administrator in shell-rimmed spectacles who rested his claim to authority on the fact that he got things done...
Life in Iceland the soldiers reported, was not cordial. When a British expeditionary force took over Iceland at the time of the Nazi invasion of Norway, their reception by the natives was anything but warm. The Icelanders so resented the British that soldiers had to go out in parties of three, well-armed and on their guard against stabbings and shootings. When the soldiers bought eggs, they had to pay $1.20 a dozen, and then the Icelandic grocers had to be watched as they would put only ten in the bag. Icelandic diet was narrow. Mutton appeared in nearly every...
...Lewis found Wisconsin's faculty less than cordial. They avoided him, gossiped about him at the University Club, carped at him in faculty meetings. One day last week "Professor"' Lewis abruptly announced to his class: "I have said all I could say in a year." Next day he packed his bags and took a train to Manhattan. Although his departure was outwardly amicable, the Milwaukee Journal reported that he had told a friend: "I've had enough of the faculty objecting to this and that. I'm through." The Journal also unearthed the reason...
...Dale Maple a growing admiration for Adolf Hitler, and for Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink-cheeked Faculty Adviser James Hawkes became perturbed and tried to squelch his Nazi talk, Dale conceived a cordial dislike for Instructor Hawkes, became still more defiant. To the dismay of his roommate, Dale installed a bust of Hitler on his desk...