Word: polity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stuck to his self-imposed vow of silence on politi cal matters...
...Lemke, smiling: "Maybe it would be better if we both didn't run." Newspaper speculation, spurred by the Lemke incident, began to assume more & more that Mr. Roosevelt will broadcast his July acceptance of the Democratic nomination in the most glamorous manner possible - that he will take full politi cal advantage of his position as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, perhaps from a strategy conference in London. In London the iron railings in front of the American Embassy are getting a fresh coat of paint and gold trimmings, fancywork denied even to Buckingham Palace since...
...there are a few others who have played before, without getting a letter, like George Politi and Danny Nehrer, blocking backs, Jim Blanchard and Lou Helmick, centers, Whit Doe, tackle and incidentally native of Harvard, Mass., and incidentally the tallest thing on the squad, all 6 feet 4 1/2 of him, and Harry Tredennick, a promising end, and Phil Goldenberg, a good fullback...
...freedom in a strange land. From these feelings comes the book's emotional charge, its human understanding, its martial sweep. Its weaknesses are Regler's weaknesses - sentimentality and political obtuseness. Sentimentality makes him glorify the most ill-natured, suspicious, truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter national Brigades, leads him to an ac quiescence that would be dishonest if it were not merely smug...