Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meter, Iowa, walked into Des Moines' radio station WHO, announced that he wanted to go on the air for Truman, plunked down $85 to pay for the time. In his broadcast, he explained: in 1932 he was broke and facing foreclosure. Today he owns 540 acres of land, 500 hogs, a restaurant, and twelve filling stations. It was the Democrats and their aid to farmers that did it, he declared. Why change...
...pattern was the same across the land. Harry Truman's home state of Missouri elected RICHARD BOLLING, 32, a New Deal zealot who campaigned for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; his home district named LEONARD IRVING, 50, a labor leader...
...named for Stalin. Molotov has been immortalized in the names of four Russian towns, one region, countless streets, and a square in Soviet-dominated Hungary. The cities of Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Kuibyshev (formerly Samara) and Kirovabad carry the names of four more Soviet faithfuls across the land...
...Eliot had assembled his picture of the contemporary world in The Waste Land, which, like most of Eliot's earlier poetry, had the immediacy of a headline, the memorableness of a song that is easy to hum because it is reminiscent of other songs...
...Waste Land was not mere poetic journalism. Eliot found the world in bits & pieces, reported it in snips & snatches of allusions to the Grail legend, to Frazer's Golden Bough, to Hindu philosophy. At the end, he says: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins." The shoring was not shoveling; it was the orderly construction of a mosaic. His purpose was not merely to describe disorder and frustration, but to contrast it with the possibility of a return to order and fulfillment...