Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astromental historians updated F. W. Though the last Englishman had long been dead, the British Empire continued to exist. The Germans had been the first people to ask to have their chauvinisms removed by the Central Psycho-Surgical Bureau. Russian Communism ("hoary with age") had clothed itself in such "intoxicating religious pomp" that the young Marxist clergy swung censers (full of disinfectant), chanted rhymed statistics and wore miters inscribed with the sacred text: "The Welfare of the Greatest Number of Microorganisms is the Purpose of the Cosmos." The U.S. had passed a Constitutional amendment "by virtue of which the economic...
...anything else, it had disclosed the improvisations of U.S. foreign policy and how ill prepared the Army & Navy had been to back up the strong talk of the State Department. (Said Frank Knox to Admiral Richardson: "We have never been ready but we have always won.") Where liaison did exist between departments, it had been almost by accident. Army, Navy, State and White House had gone their various wayward ways, until the climax of mistakes on that Sunday morning on Oahu...
Racquets, fastest of all games played on foot, nearly twice as fast as squash racquets, is also one of the rarest. In the U.S., where a few hundred play it, only eleven racquets courts exist. Game requirements: a four-walled cement court about twice the length of a squash court; a hard ball (the size of a ping-pong ball, but the consistency of a baseball, it shoots and caroms from wall to wall so rapidly that a marker is needed to call "play" after each fair shot); a supply of racquets, since an average player breaks a racquet...
Have starch-stuffed Britons come out of the war as physically fit as nutrition experts say? Many Britons doubt it. Last week, in the London Observer, common-sensical Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert quarreled with nutrition statistics that "confuse existence with life." He argued: "One can exist on the fruitless, starchy, dismal diet of Britain today, but what matters is liveliness, vitality, vigor. We are being called on to make a tremendous industrial effort. . . . That needs live folk, not mere existers...
Adoption is the order of the day. Ruined towns are being adopted by those less damaged, villages by cities, cities by provinces, small countries by larger and richer ones. And the latest idea is the adoption of soldiers graves by people in the areas where they exist...