Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are now, after a century of intense missionary effort, 350,000 Christians in Japan. There were 400,000 at the end of the 16th Century, when Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries were active in the islands. Before a savage persecution almost exterminated them, the great center of Japan's Christians was Nagasaki, where the second atomic bomb fell...
...Secretary Patterson ridiculed the charge, and the Navy charts (a "fancy brochure" . . . "diversionary effort"). On lower levels the shrill cries were re-echoed...
Jealous of their committee assignments and seniority, Congressmen fished up red herrings. Crusty Carl Vinson and Andrew May introduced legislation to set up a separate air force but drop the idea of a merger. It was a calculated effort. Where merger would cut in half the number of such committee places, the Vinson-May plan would increase them by half...
...progress is agonizingly slow. Up to now, some paraplegics have spent most of their time fighting infections, undergoing surgery. Walking, if finally mastered, is a titanic effort of shoulder muscles - of braces weighing 15 lbs. which take 15 minutes to put on. Most of the patients prefer to stick to the wheelchair...
Karl Shapiro's 2,072-line Essay on Rime was written in the Pacific, without access to books. Modest in tone but ambitious in purpose, it is the effort of a talented poet to keep writing in the midst of a war. But it is a disturbing indication of what poetry (and its readers) have come to, that the publication of this work was widely regarded as an important event. The poem contains many unexceptionable and not too generally recognized ideas and statements ("dialectic is the foe of poetry"). But it contains little that is not self-evident...