Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brass Check. While Washington society resembles that of St. Louis, San Francisco and Chicago in many of its skin-deep manifestations, there are differences. Washington's crowded beach is washed by the tide of politics, and every important official gets a social position to wear like a brass locker check. As a result the capital's reigning dowagers cannot really rule, but only sit above the high-water mark...
...schools and factories had to shut down as the coal shortage shut off heat and electric power. Office workers strained their eyes by candlelight. Water mains and pipes broke everywhere (since Britons stubbornly cling to the illusion that their winters are never very cold, water mains are not buried deep enough and many homes have rickety, poorly insulated "afterthought" plumbing, laid along outside walls). London's News Chronicle carried a cartoon depicting two Englishmen viewing an icicle-hung pipe above the caption: "If burst pipes were good enough for my dear father, they're good enough...
...dawned raw and cloudy, London was blanketed with snow, virgin white on the rooftops, instantly debauched into slush on the streets. Open horse-drawn coaches were abandoned in favor of the family's cosy Daimlers. But in drab Waterloo, draped with tattered bunting, crowds stood shivering six-deep to watch the farewells. Before a royal Pullman smothered in hyacinths and cyclamen, the Queen pecked at her relatives, King George exchanged a last affable word with the Prime Minister, and the Princesses in girlish blue and rose beamed with excitement. Just as the train pulled out for Portsmouth, the clouds...
...surface it might be "back to normalcy," but it is not. Deep, abiding problems have shaken too many too seriously for fat complacency to be the keynote. If the community is split seeking answers, the important thing is that answers are being sought. They will be found, or stumbled upon, in large measure by those million-odd men here and in other colleges under the G.I. Bill. And when the veteran leaves his textbooks, he will have done more than master the tools necessary to answer questions. He will have reshaped the ideas of the country and refurbished the ideals...
...farms, the semi-official objection was that Britain's food shortage was so grave that the nation could not take responsibility for feeding extra mouths. In fact, importation of foreign labor was political dynamite because labor's rank & file jealously opposed it. The alternative-a deep cut in the Armed Forces and Auxiliaries (1,510,000 men & women)-would mean a serious shrinkage in Britain's foreign prestige and policy...