Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billions and our goods are going into a Europe which is worse than bankrupt. It is an ill and disordered Europe, a psychotic wasteland, with certain islands of relative sanity. We should be neither surprised nor disappointed if our dollars do not heal the inner hurts of Europe...
...must stand ready to support with sanctions all liberals . . . There are in many countries men who may not be in the government but who have the inner strength and vitality to formulate programs for their people. James Yen has such a program for China a program of mass education and reconstruction...
...Whatever inner agonies had assailed 21-year-old Eileen Gibson, known as "Gay," they were forever resolved in the early morning of Oct. 18. Ninety miles off the coast of Portuguese Guinea, she was pushed through a porthole into the ocean -perhaps alive, perhaps dead-from a first-class cabin on "B" deck of the steamship Durban Castle. Eight days later, when the Durban Castle put into Southampton, detectives came aboard and arrested James Camb, a deck steward, for the murder of Eileen Gibson...
Virginia Woolf appreciated the massive social novels of Fielding and Thackeray, but they did not even write about the questions that interested her. She sought to penetrate beyond the appearances of daily experience to the inner core of life. For this she employed three essential symbols : Time, Space and the Sea, the perennial aspects of life's hazy patterns. By concentrating all of her attention on a moment's experience she tried to detect its ties with the past, its anticipation of the future. And while she could not answer the questions she posed, she found...
...child is increasingly insecure, so is the adult in his bright new world. As cities grew, and machines multiplied, men lost their feeling for "manipulative creativity," and to inner insecurity was added "the insecurity of the collapsing platform" (i.e., men did not know where they stood in society, or how long they could keep their footing...