Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...narrow nationalism. Civilization hangs in the balance. If the future proves a growing organism, and we find ourselves making great strides toward a better expression of life on earth, coming generations can give thanks that we heeded the Christian philosophy Mr. Wallace represents. If civilization declines to an era similar to the Dark Ages-or perishes completely-we can attribute this to the fact that we turned deaf ears to a small voice...
...Martinis Era. The miscalculation had been the failure to recognize that the self-interest which had kept the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. together during the war would instantly divide them as soon as the war was won. So long as Franklin Roosevelt lived, all postwar planning was based on the assumption that the U.S.S.R. would acquiesce or even assist in the democratic recovery of the world. It was not until ex-Secretary of State Byrnes offered the Soviet Union a 25-year protective treaty against German militarism and was brusquely turned down that the Administration woke...
Between what an Administration official called the "Four Martinis and Let's Have an Agreement" era of Franklin Roosevelt and what Marshall called the "Interminable Discussion of Disagreements" at Moscow lay two years of arduous education. Between those two eras was the San Francisco meeting of U.N., the period when Jimmy Byrnes conducted relations with Russia in the jovial tradition of parish-pump politics in South Carolina, when Byrnes sat back and told all who cared to listen that the great thing was to get the other fellow's point of view, when Byrnes saw the U.S. role...
Spinner H. Slichter, Lament University Professor, predicted and era of economic prosperity for the United States as its production volume rises from the present rate of $194,000,000,000 to $300,000,000,000 by 1960, the Associated Press reported last night...
...effect--co-education was here to stay. In his daze, he narrowly cleared another covey of skirts and sweaters. He could distinctly hear the 1896 Gate squeaking its hinges in disgust and any time now, the Mem Hall bell would start up a dirge celebrating the end of an era. What would the old grads think as they rolled over and bent an ear? What, indeed...