Word: prewar
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...children needed was not to learn to adjust to the shattered society around them but to be provided with a faith to replace the one Japan had lost. Simultaneously, SCAP's Information and Education Section set out to fill Japan's schools with teachers avowedly opposed to prewar Japanese policy. Thus encouraged, most of Japan's educators reverted to the Marxist beliefs so many of them had held in the 1920s. Nikkyoso, the 600,000-member Japanese teachers union, soon fell under Marxist domination. Preached at in their classrooms, often encouraged to skip school for political demonstrations...
...unfolding the story of a nice little guy whose bosse's use his apartment as launching pad for some fairly sordid affairs, the picture takes on a hard, unwinking look of irony. Again and again, Wilder seems to speak in the accents of one of his favorite cities, prewar Berlin, a tough, sardonic, sometimes wryly sentimental place whose intellectual symbol was Bertolt Brecht. Is Billy trying to say something serious about men and women, heels and heroes? Is he as a sort of puritanical pander, trying to instruct as he entertains...
...free market (official rate 45 to one), and the presses still clacked out new money to support a 250,000-man army that gobbles up 50% of the budget. Commerce had slowed to a near standstill; in central Java only 50 sugar mills were operating (v. 120 prewar), and some 200,000 mill workers were unemployed. Everywhere, there was graft, red tape and spectacular inefficiency. Shiny new Czech tractors proved useless in the flooded rice fields; some 30% of a 100,000-ton Swedish shipment of cement had turned to rock because no one thought to bring...
...Miss Ellen" Gray, the well-bred widow who is the wispy heroine of Pierce's story, self-discovery is not easy. She spent her prewar life in an indolent dreamworld as soft and sheltered as a cotton boll, with endless maids and mammies to tend every want that a dutiful husband and son could not fulfill. The war killed both, and drove Miss Ellen from the family plantation to live with relatives in Raleigh; even then the protective cocoon of her gentility was scarcely damaged. In June 1865 she returns home with her widowed daughter-in-law, "Miss Lucy...
...many true democrats, reminded of the prewar strong-arm groups that made a mockery of prewar parliamentary rule, were deeply alarmed by the trend of events. In the Diet, the opposition benches were still empty-boycotted by Socialist members who were now streaming home to whip their constituents into greater resistance to Kishi. Ugly days had passed and more could come...