Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute of Public Affairs meeting in Charlottesville, Va. last fortnight a thinking soldier talked plain to some think ing laymen when General Sherman Miles confessed that in the past six weeks bright military minds had painfully shed many a long-held preconception, proceeded to analyze the Battle of Flanders and emerged with a big-time military man's explanation of the success of Germany's modern war machine - and what could be done about it. Said the U. S. Army's Assistant Chief of Staff (G2 - Intelligence) and son of the late, great Nelson A. Miles...
...President listened to Congress, to the people. The drumfire from Europe reached crescendo. He left the White House for an evening afloat on the Potomac. He played with his stamps, "did some think ing." He called in the civilians and officers who assist him in running the Navy and Army: Secretaries Edison (due to go soon) and Woodring (long overdue to go); Assistant Secretary of War Johnson (whose brash, abrasive voice crying in the wilderness for men & arms last year was too loud for his own, the Army's and the country's comfort); Chief of Naval Operations...
Tethered to stakes at varying distances from the pole were 84 goats munching grass, occasionally maa-aa-ing...
...sort of Oriental Decameron, Chin P'ing Mei tells the story of a rich young rakehell named Hsi Men, of whom it was said that "unless they are concubines of the Prince of Hell himself, they belong to the harem of wealthy Hsi Men." Fretful because he is not ten men, something of a sadist (though a pleasant fellow at times), Hsi is figuratively said to enjoy "spending his nights among blossoms and willows." The details are put much more plainly...
Filled with Confucian aphorisms ("With a passionate man love is like the sun, which follows its course to the west and rises again in the east!"), Chin P'ing Met puts many a simple moral into simpler verse. Extolling the homely virtues, one ends...