Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some stages in history seem to resemble periods in the lives of individuals. As an individual is Born, grows and dies, so do societies undergo a similar cycle of birth, florescence and decay. And, like different individuals, different societies are charged with varying amounts of enthusiasm, moral fervor, faith in progress and the ultimate rightness of things --a conglomerate of moral values commonly designated by the inexact term, "idealism...
...with salt, especially his cloying, new-found love of suffering humanity, his suspiciously detailed and too melodramatic recital of fast-moving events. But whatever their worth as history, these tenuously connected yarns have the quality of horrible legends recited against the feverish background of Europe's moral decay...
...words may have quickened the affection of men for F.D.R., but they did not quicken the hopes of his fellow Democrats. From Poughkeepsie, Jim Mead plodded on through the last days of his all but lost campaign. All around him lay the decay of the once-great organization which had kept the Democrats in control for 14 years...
...week's end, owners, A.F.L. and N.M.U. eyed each other, fought, threatened, broke off negotiations. N.M.U., to show how tough it was, even yanked its men off security watches aboard the struck ships, leaving them and their cargoes unprotected from fire, storm, accident or decay. Owners pleaded for the Coast Guard...
...Agriculture is also in decay. Many farmers have been pauperized and have abandoned their farms. . . . Capitalist trusts destroy grain and burn corn in engines in order to raise the price of grain and flour...