Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French, in their own somewhat cautious fashion, sang as usual of love: "Tonight is ours, if you wish," Paris hummed, adding thriftily: "One night is a lot, and yet so little...
...critic, aphorist and editor of parts, Cyril Connolly is the latest fashion in bitter elegance in English letters, as his friend George Orwell is the latest fashion in common sense. Connolly's touch of Irish divination and curiosity has given him a greater range than other amateurs of the 18th Century manner. His published pieces yield the vivid image of an Old Etonian still alive and kicking amid the European rubble, somberly turning the pages of psychiatric journals, reaching for the odes of Horace, and composing, with a groan, clever paragraphs to keep his modern anguish under classic control...
...beating the drum over Russian unilateral action in Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The knowledge that British troops were garrisoned in Greece, that American units were still stationed in Iceland, likewise silenced criticism of the presence of Russian forces in Azerbaijan. But as the Big Four powers move crab-fashion away from their peripheral problems towards the nexus of all the problems of the peace--Germany interpretation has given way to savage criticism, and attack. With the focus of attention centered on Germany, the foreign policy of the Soviet Union has grown so alarmingly mysterious and incomprehensible as to cause...
Troops of the U.S. 88th Infantry Division used jeeps, cavalry fashion, to prevent a clash between 25,000 nationalist Italians and 15,000 Italian leftists and Slovenes. Said one G.I., nursing his stone-bruised right arm: "If we ever let those two mobs get at each other, there won't be enough hospitals and morgues in all Venezia Giulia to take care of the casualties...
...trust those who pretend to be friends of our country. Many of them are more dangerous than out-and-out enemies. Recently it has become the fashion among certain émigrés, not only the Left but among actual monarchists, to lick our boots. Don't trust them. Once a turncoat, always a turncoat...