Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glowing with hangdog good cheer, like a saloon bouncer turned babysitter, the U.S. Army bravely launched itself, last week, into a kind of ordeal by politeness. The first men of the new peacetime draft began reporting for induction, and the ground forces, by fiat from the Highest Brass, were duty bound to welcome them with smiles...
...Western Europe had its own reasons for the way it felt. Very few people had any grudge against Tom Dewey. A lot of Europeans were just like Premier Themistocles Sophoulis in Athens,-who said: "Somehow I feel I know President Truman. Governor Dewey might have been equally good, but I would have to learn that first." In Switzerland the eminent Gazette de Lausanne decided that "the victory of Truman is really the victory of Marshall...
...Britons chose, they could read the latest findings of the British Gallup poll, which showed that the Labor Party had sunk to a new low last month: Tories, 48%; Labor, 41%; Liberals, 10%; Others, 1%. Last week some wags persisted in regarding these findings as "good news for Attlee...
...20th Century needed a poet (at least) to explain it to itself, and a good place for a 20th Century poet to be born was St. Louis, Mo. Early, Thomas Stearns Eliot left this American heartland to strengthen at Harvard his ancestral New England roots. His output there was conventional verse, but his intake was metaphysics, logic, science and heavy drafts of European and Oriental culture...
...forces hold a line past the first group of hills to the west, where Taiyuan's rich coal and iron resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds can plunk artillery shells into the city and blanket two good airfields to the south and one to the north. The new airstrip, hastily carved out of dirt road this week, is across the Fen River, three miles west of the city...