Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France. Hidden in secrecy was France's Bureau des Informations. But the main French policy has long been known: "The brutal propaganda of the Axis powers has not always been favorable to their reputations. . . . We will not stoop to the showy advertising to which our rivals have resorted. . . . The propaganda of France must be of an informative character...
What would happen if peace did not come, nobody knew. What would happen if casualties rose to 60% of the forces engaged, as they did in World War I (last week they were .004%), nobody knew. In the long, dreary, penetratingly cold winter nights, with their cities blacked out and air-raid sirens screaming, Germany's disciplined people might crack, as they did in 1918, and turn against their leaders. But last week they felt about the war as they did about the new consolidated sausage which took the place of the three score varieties of wursts they could...
...elderly folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service. . . . Lenitives are available and among the best of them is wisely chosen reading and rereading. . . . Some readers will find an inexhaustible solace in Sir Walter Scott; others will feel that Thackeray has for too long gathered dust upon their shelves. ... In the months to come many old favorites may be rehabilitated, and enthusiastic readers may rediscover or learn for the first time the magic of Tennyson, the robust courage of Browning, the thoughtfulness and lyric poetry of Landor, the observant accuracy of Crabbe...
...lead out of Canada's pants and put some silver in, was one of Canada's cleverest financial men, Colonel James Layton Ralston. A corporation lawyer who spends his spare time loafing with dory fishermen on the Nova Scotia coast, fishing and eating lobsters, he has long refused to nibble Cabinet bait. But once in, he was expected because of his bulldog tenacity and narrow partisanship to become the Government's strongest...
Military surgeons work by one rule of thumb: patch up and move on. At frontline dressing stations neither time nor sentiment is wasted on the hopelessly injured. A seriously wounded man has to survive the long stretcher trip through collecting station, hospital station, evacuation hospital to base hospital, some 30 or 40 miles behind the lines, before he is permitted the medical luxuries of thoroughgoing surgical care...