Word: groping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration understand U.S. policy that way? If it did, it had never dared say so. No one yet-outside the military leaders, who are listened to less attentively in times of peace-had made it clear. And so the Navy had to grope...
This was a new room, rich with hope, terrible with strange dangers. The door that slammed behind man at Hiroshima had locked. Life, as always, was irreversible. There was no choice but to grope ahead into the Atomic...
...have to go to Rio de Janeiro: in their window-gazing moments our correspondentsthere can look across Rio Harbor to Sugar Loaf Mountain. Drawback: to get into the office at night, you'd have to go through a neighboring apartment building, rise in a rickety service elevator, grope your way down some very dark corridors...
...breakthrough that would sweep the Germans back to the Rhine-but the pace was grinding and generally slow. For the time, at least, it was a painful battle of attrition. At several points west of the Rhine, the German counterattacks forced the Allies to back up, to grope for new footing for the next plunge ahead. The U.S. Seventh Army slugged it out at Belfort, the Third at Metz, the British at Nijmegen, the Canadians on the coast...
...their idle dreams and nostalgia are true and good. They cry: "Carry me back, Master, to the cathedral town where the canons run through the water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled side-streets, or back to the upland milltown . . . with its grope-movie and its poolroom lit by gas, carry me back to the days before my wife put on weight, back to the years when beer was cheap and the rivers really froze in the winter...