Word: orients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road, across 1,750 miles of some of the world's toughest jungles and mountains, made tougher by Japanese gun fire. Said the New York Times: "Whether or not swift communication makes for swift understanding one doesn't know. The line may carry angry words. . . . But the Orient ... is shrinking, and this is one of the shrinkages...
Desperate Conditions. Some of you have traveled in the Orient and you remember your first glimpse of it. The poverty, the overcrowding, the dirt, the squalor, the disease were all right out there in full view; and your first reaction was: "Why, these people are living almost like animals. Their condition is hopeless." It was just about all you could take under ordinary circumstances, wasn't it? How much worse after almost eight years of war and invasion...
...three days the filthy, ancient city shook as shell after shell poured into some of the most congested areas on earth. Hundreds of Arab dead lay in the bazaars and narrow streets. Shells hit the overstaffed Russian legation, the Syrian Parliament building, the plush Orient Palace Hotel. A U.S.-built Baltimore bomber flew overhead, dropped a few bombs. After the Senegalese had done their work with machineguns and mortars, they pillaged the shops and bazaars, taking radios, scarce food and scarcer clothing...
...larger number-those who are bound for the Orient-will get U.S. furloughs, unless military necessity interferes. Some will go into brief retraining. The Army hopes to move 500,000 men to the U.S. in the peak month (August...
...sense of personal loss, the impulse to render homage were universal. From the St. Lawrence to the Amazon, across Europe and the Middle East, to the Orient and the Antipodes, the leaders had known Franklin Roosevelt at firsthand. In Ottawa William Lyon Mackenzie King expressed Canada's feeling: it is "as if one of our very own had passed away." South Africa's great Jan Christian Smuts ("We two Dutchmen got along splendidly," he had said of his first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves...