Word: oriented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time this shrill declaration was made there was no longer reason to doubt that Germany had already dealt the first blow. The weapon had been Japan. The attempt to cut the U.S. life line to the Orient was the opening move of the second phase of World War II, designed to prevent the U.S. from helping its Allies while the Axis disposed of them...
Withington, whose father is a minister on the outlying island, of Kapal, has lived with Orient is all his life and went to a school that and five white boys in a class of 50. He emphasized the similarity between the naturalized Japanese and all other U. S. citizens, saying that both are interested in the same things...
...dawn the day before, the Japanese had attacked savagely all along the whole great U.S. island-bridge which stretches to the Orient...
Last week thunderheads were gathering all over Tommy Hart's Orient. U.S. Marines were ordered to abandon Shanghai, other Chinese stations-lest they be massacred when war came (see p. 29). Australian troops swarmed into Singapore and Canadian troops into Hong Kong in preparation for new Japanese aggression. And at bases from Sydney to Manila, British, Dutch and U.S. ships prepared for action. Already U.S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had trumpeted: "The hour of decision is here." Tommy Hart was the man for that hour...
...doubts "whether most Americans realize the ex tent of the fall of liberal civilization in Europe, the thorough sweep of old stand ards and values." In chapters like The Russian Revolt Against Civilization; Ital ian Fascism: Middle Class Bolshevism; The German Power Machine; The Clash of Revolutions in the Orient; The Fall of France; America Faces the Iron Age, he makes sure that they will...