Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic bomb all the nations, all the people of the earth have a mutual enemy. This enemy is an inanimate object that cannot be fought with men's lives against men's lives. This new-found fear in this newfound age is what will be used to unite the world. . . . To get flowery-the atomic bomb is the long awaited antagonist against which the world, a United World, will be the protagonist...
Brazilian editors were slap-happy with newfound freedom. Newspapers, with the exception of Brazil-Portugal*, sharply rapped the dictatorial Vargas regime for its truck with fascism, its curtailment of the vote and free speech. They speculated wildly about the still unscheduled elections. Names of hitherto unmentionable oppositionists, like ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and deposed Air Chief Eduardo Gomes, were headlined. Brazilians bought early editions by the handful, read them goggle-eyed. Gasped one: "I can't stand it! There's too much oxygen!" Said Diario Carioca: "The youngest of us never even knew of such freedom except...
...Zulus' great Matabele kings (TIME, Jan. 10); after 15 years of silence; near Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. Educated in England through the good offices of Cecil Rhodes, he returned to South Africa to find that the elders of the royal house (the Kamalo Clan) disapproved of him and his newfound ways. He went into seclusion, read English classics, refused to speak either his native tongue or English...
Danish-born George Olsen, onetime farmer and poultry operator, beneficiary of this nomenclatural luck, used his newfound fame to popularize his hobby. To correspondents he distributed copies of his formula for squaring the circle, which he has worked on since...
...Austin High School kids worked so energetically on their newfound music that they hired balls to threw their own dances, just so that they could play. They sold tickets with equal enthusiasm among their classmates and the chronic inhabitants of neighborhood bars...