Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what new victories would seem epic at the end of last week. For last week was the greatest, the happiest week of the war for Russia's armies. The triumphs of the week were dizzying. New possibilities were unfolded which a month ago would have seemed fantastic. The focus of war had suddenly moved westward. Men's eyes turned toward the Dnieper, toward the old borders of Russia-toward Berlin...
...Department's colossal headquarters building across the Potomac from Washington was no longer the $85,000,000 butt of jokes by capital wags. The Pentagon building was a focus of statistical bewilderment: population capacity 40,000; a telephone switchboard big enough for a city of 125,000; enough pavement for a 24-ft. roadway 49 miles long, including parking space for 8,000 cars...
...world working for the TIME & LIFE News Bureau; there are 55 editors of TIME in New York. That makes 255 altogether-and if each of them knows an average of only 40 men and women important in the news, that gives TIME (and its readers) a close-up focus on the personal characteristics of over 10,000 newsmakers...
Quid pro Quo. Russia's attention may well focus on the Far East. Stalin may ask for "an independent Soviet Republic of Manchuria, affiliated with the U.S.S.R.; a similar Republic of Korea; and even, perhaps, the Northwestern Chinese Soviet Republic of Sinkiang, Ningsia and Shensi." Russia, said Duranty, wants control of West Pacific ports, has no love for Japan and will be willing to cooperate in "our death stroke" against the Japanese when the U.S. puts into action "a really powerful force of airplanes...
...focus of world news was not in the U.S. last week. Citizens were beginning to find that not only their country's military frontiers, but its political, social and economic frontiers as well, ranged from North Africa to the Far Pacific. The words "isolation" and "intervention" were both equally dead-slain not by Franklin Roosevelt but by events beyond the power of any man to control. The U.S. was now the senior partner of all the United Nations, and the problems that this responsibility brought with it were beginning to come home to roost...