Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again & again, the word would come from somewhere: "Only a couple of hours more now." Again & again, there were fresh delays: Tempers were short; arguments flared over what might have been done. At last diggers, deep in the shaft, began to tunnel laterally toward Kathy's iron prison. Whitey was only a few shovelfuls away from the well pipe, when he was hauled to the surface, his face angry and set. There was water in his boots. Slowly at first, then faster, water poured into the tunnel. Digging stopped...
...tremendous opportunity to the West, as well as a serious problem. How far can the West go in supporting Titoist regimes? It makes sense to support Tito just enough to keep him in fighting trim against Stalin. But if this policy were to be extended indiscriminately, the U.S. might soon find itself subsidizing Communist police states hostile to itself (e.g., Yugoslavia), without real assurance that they will remain hostile to Moscow. A case in point is China's Mao Tse-tung, who is currently being sold to the U.S. as the Tito of Asia by Authors Edgar Snow, Owen...
...power, could bring the world unity and peace. For that, at least, loudmouthed Dictator Tito deserved the West's gratitude. As one American observer in Europe put it last week: "The time is surely come when the West should stop thinking of communism as a block which might splinter but can never crack...
There has been the same fatalistic reaction to the news that a Communist assault-or perhaps merely a peaceful occupation-might be imminent. Said a cobbler in the Fu Tze-miao, Nanking's chief bazaar: "The war is lost. Let them come. Shuikuan [Who cares...
...puzzlement of parents, many a daughter comes home bubbling about the terrific nocaut at the fights or the jonrons which piled up the escor at the beisbol game. But if her deit was real quiut, she might say very little about how they spent the evening-parqueando...