Word: farawayness
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Never in world history has one man so dominated, so terrorized, so galvanized into action, or inaction, the people of the entire world. The lives and minds of men in faraway Patagonia, in Bengal, in Senegal and in Saskatchewan have been agitated by the moves of Adolf Hitler. His name hung like a pall over the U. S. political and economic scene of the year just closed and yet you say it was Churchill's year...
America follows suit once a year. Christmas is our slogan, and it does pretty well. You see stories in the newspapers about the heavy traffic on the highways and railroads--people leaving the city to go home, others coming in from faraway places. Today and tomorrow comes Harvard's mass migration...
Like you I listen to every word of the BBC. From my faraway home, I have followed with wonder and despair the events up to and beyond the fall of France...
...very few of the U. S. S. R.'s 170,000,000 inhabitants the Battle of Britain last week was a faraway thing-as faraway, but as interesting, as an unusual conjunction of planets. On the third and fifth pages of their Pravda or Izvestia, Muscovites who cared could read of the battle's progress, in dry little paragraphs like items of scientific rather than popular interest. Bigger news which those papers evidently expected to stir the proletariat were developments in the East, especially in the five central Asiatic republics. In this remote corner of Asia, where...
...Argentina, whose people would never fight for islands in the faraway Caribbean, is not likely to ratify the Convention of Havana in a hurry. Having made what she considers concessions in agreeing to the Act of Havana (although Dr. Melo signed with the reservation that his Government must approve), Argentina will most likely delay ratification until she sees whether her commercial future lies with the Americas or with Nazi Europe...