Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallace was the only Council wife so conspicuously clad. One wife had even neglected to bring the cotton dress required for admittance to the Council Ball. Grower Johnston also faced another paradox in the record of the Council's victories. The Council had successfully fought the use of foreign oils in the U. S., on behalf of cottonseed oil. Yet cotton-men have more to fear from anti-import nationalism than any other Americans for, unless the U. S. buys imports from abroad, foreigners have no exchange with which to buy U. S. cotton. In his plans for cotton...
Anglo-American. As a symbol of Anglo-American unity Winston Churchill is a paradox because his Americanism is more British than American-more British, even, than average-British. This seven-month child of a British peer and an American heiress went back to Elizabethan times to find his spiritual forebears; he grew to maturity with a stomach for strong food and drink, with a lust for adventure, with a tongue and pen that shaped the English language into the virile patterns of a Donne, a Marlowe or a Shakespeare. His father he worshiped, but never got close to; his mother...
What seems most remarkable about Thailand is not that the twain never quite meet, but that the East has made so much progress in ways of the West. Thailand's roads are remarkable; her trains run on time. The curious paradox in Thailand's position is that being on Japan's little list for Greater East Asia, she is threatened by an eastern power which has developed western techniques of warfare. Last week Thailand was doing what she could to neutralize her paradox...
...Eeriest paradox of all was Wall Street. A capital-goods boom was under way with almost no help at all from private investment. The corporate securities markets did $1,666,805,000 of refundings during eleven months of 1940, but raised only $660,799,000 of new money. As the year ended, Wall Street, its best barometer, was huddled in the storm cellar with Confidence...
...life filled with paradox. Winston Churchill, who writes some of the finest historical prose of his time, never went to college. The future Chancellor of the Exchequer had a hard time with simple arithmetic. Son of an antimilitarist, Winston rushed enthusiastically into the Army. As a war correspondent on almost perpetual furlough from his regiment, he was in the thick of fierce fighting on three continents...