Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shadow of South Mountain in the eastern section of Seoul, between dusty, windswept Bell Street and the foul creek known as Clean Stream, lies the East Gate Market. Here, in prewar days, was the busiest, most bustling collection of shops in the city. Here a man could buy the rice and vegetables for his family, a housewife could buy a silk jacket...
From Here to Eternity, by James Jones. Man's inhumanity to man in the prewar Army; an eloquent four-lettered blast by an angry first novelist (TIME...
...barber's head, in fact, is a windy forum through which all the conflicting ideas of prewar France chase each other, one after another. His final word of reassurance on the French General Staff: "While we were having a drink I noticed they all held their little fingers in the air, quite separate from the rest. A mere detail, you will say. Agreed, but it's by small signs of that kind that one knows the best people...
...British are not a complaining lot, but over & over I heard Britons, recalling some prewar incident or practice, sadly say that they never expect to see so happy a time again. Bound with this is a pathetic belief that things will be better for their children, a belief that is stoutly and desperately held...
From Here to Eternity, by James Jones. Man's inhumanity to man in the prewar Army; an eloquent four-lettered blast by an angry first novelist (TiME...