Word: longing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years ago, having reached his allotted three-score-years-and-ten, Somerset Maugham took a long look at himself, reached for his notebook, and jotted down a sort of bank balance of his mental and physical condition. It showed...
...next day at noon, Kenney looking on, 27 Jap planes attacked a U.S. airdrome near Port Mores New Guinea. The Japs got away without being touched by U.S. fighters. Even the antiaircraft shooting was wretchedly ineffective . 150 to 0. General Kenney Reports is Kenney's brash, galloping and long-winded explanation of how he all that. Short (5 ft. 6 in.), bristle-haired and scar-cheeked, Kenney ruthlessly rid himself of incompetent brass, re-trained his flyers and lifted them from lethargy to lethal effectiveness in a few short weeks. To replace plane losses, they built spare-parts crates...
...real signiflence of the recent crisis is as evidence of the chronic weakness of French government, an ominous weakness in a country that is a key to Western European recovery. France is apparently incapable of a government with sufficient Assembly support and strong enough leadership to carry through a long range program. Typically, the regimes of the last twenty years have been weak coalitions of moderates, able to reach agreement on only a few immediate issues, and held together mostly by a common fear of extremists of the Right and Left...
...factors behind France's instability is the five year term for members of the Assembly. With their security assured for so long a period, political discipline is lax: splinter parties can refuse to support the government and cause its collapse on unimportant issues without risking new elections...
...result of the edict, all fraternities will get rid of their bars this week. The fraternity system is not expected to survive if the ruling is enforced. Student opinion holds this expectation one of the main reasons behind Wriston's decision to evoke the long-dormant rule...