Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi, proud of its pleasant way of life-which has depended for more than a century on Negro labor-fretted and fumed at doing the hard work. But Mississippians continued to tack up bigger & bolder Jim Crow signs. There was no pause in the steady run of "incidents" between white civilians and Negro soldiers at the state's 36 military establishments. Politicians, bitter at the New Deal for "pampering" the colored folks, went right on orating in favor of white supremacy. The Grenada County Weekly editorialized: "The good darkies of the South should remember that, at the best, Eleanor...
Fallen Saints. "The first village we came to, St. Laurent, was like the curate's egg-good in spots. There were pleasant little stone houses with courtyards where birds hang in the trees, black and white hens guiding their chicks about and one belated hen setting on a manure pile hatching her brood. With American efficiency we had already supplied these householders with French tricolors to fly and with wall placards reading 'Private Property-Off Limits to Troops...
Beardsley ("Pay-as-you-go") Ruml, visiting his doctor-father in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had a pleasant thought (for a local reporter): the American postwar standard of living can be 50% higher than anything the U.S. has ever known-if the right conditions prevail. The "right conditions": a national income of $140 billions, based upon 55 million people working 40-hour weeks...
...pleasant Italian morning, with pale sunlight shimmering through a thin mist. Poppies bloomed in the wheat, crickets chirped in the weeds and skylarks sang overhead...
Love of country, admirable as a natural passion, was distorted into a fierce nationalism by William Shakespeare ("this happy breed of men, this little world") and a host of Romantics- including William Blake, who selfishly hoped to "build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land...