Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle. Along the 40-mile front there had been no spectacular advance. Unlike previous desert campaigns when wide pendulum swings were measured in hundreds of miles, last week's gains were measured in yards. This was a different kind of desert warfare...
...once, the ins worked harder than the outs. After ten years in full power, the Democrats saw the pendulum of political favor swinging away from them: they labored mightily to halt its course...
...democracies used to enjoy what Author de Sales calls the "pendulum movement." "The pendulum movement from Right to Left and from Left to Right has been characteristic of all democracies during the 19th Century and up to a few years ago. A period of consolidation and sometimes of reaction has normally followed a period of social reform. . . . It can be argued that this cyclical behavior assured the stability of democratic institutions during the times when only a few extremist groups challenged the advantages of democracy over any other form of government. But this easy and regular pulsation of democratic organisms...
...disruption of the pendulum movement was less real because "American conservatism is a powerful shock absorber." Rightly or wrongly, Author de Sales believes that the third-term election of Franklin Roosevelt "had two important consequences: on the vertical plane-that is, nationally-the American electorate expressed its willingness to play a part, at least temporarily, in world affairs. . . . On the horizontal plane it recognized the implications of the revolutionary forces and their possible effect on the evolution of American democracy...
Thus weighted, the pendulum plunged back toward Germany. The clock of war ticked grimly...