Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the U. S. people in principle oppose third terms for their Presidents is a cliche so long accepted as to be a maxim, although it has never been tested by ballot. It now has a special meaning: a candidate for a second reelection, potential or declared, cannot be a good President in crisis; he may even use the crisis to forward his ambitions...
...consultations" if peace should be refused. In Berlin, inspired stories promised Russian planes on the Western Front; in London the dominant reaction was relief; in Rome it was uneasiness. But in Moscow, Times Correspondent George Eric Rowe Gedye, noted readers waiting in their queues-more than a quarter-mile long-to buy Pravda, read the German-Russian peace proposal, gripped with "fear that they were about to be dragged into...
...often have we been told we are the effete democracies whose day is done, and who must now be replaced by various forms of virile dictatorship and totalitarian despotism? No doubt at the beginning we shall have to suffer, because of having too long wished to lead a peaceful life...
...hour schedule, from which future appointments had been dropped, she simply went where she thought she ought to go, appearing at one WATS post which happened to be temporarily deserted. And she typified lonely British motherhood, for her two daughters had also been evacuated. She stood it as long as she could, then flew to Scotland to see them last fortnight. No British Queen had ever spent a month more like the month spent by her subjects, and the parallel and the example was not lost on the Empire...
Athens, the goddess of justice, finally smiled yesterday on long suffering Robert (Apple) Orchard...