Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the pendulum was swinging back toward Ed Thye and Harold Stassen. But it was going to be close...
...Author Katz sat rocking back & forth with the pendulum regularity so often seen among psychoneurotics as 20th-century civilization reached its brilliant apogee. Her grimed, lined face suggested that of a ravaged Nefertiti,-and she gazed upon the general obliteration with the self-conscious superiority of the implacable progressive. At her feet, sprawled on her stomach, Carrie Chapman Katz was devouring a book and the gristle on an uncooked thighbone. Both women were completely bald-the result of radioactivity. They were also in the last stages of hysterical fatigue, for day & night they had to fight off assault waves...
...issues of war, the pendulum of U.S. public feeling now shifted swiftly on the issues of peace. Last week it swung to optimism over U.S. relations with Europe...
After the landing in Normandy, the pendulum swung more rapidly. In losing Africa, the Axis had lost a million men. In losing France they lost another million-beside their losses on the Russian front and in Italy...
...rate, the alternative which the Germans chose completed their undoing. For they, not the Allies, set the military pendulum swinging against themselves. In attacking Russia they relinquished their quantitative advantage in military power. Making that mistake clearly lost them...