Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Largely, in its observation of the ebb & flow of Communism's tide, the U.S. looked at the motherlands of Europe. For the rest of the world it found time only for the quick, uneasy glance. It knew there was trouble afoot in Southeast Asia, it had an uneasy conscience about China, where Communism was carving out a great political and military victory. Thanks partly to George Marshall's tactic of fighting Communism in Europe first, and partly to the influence of fellow travelers and gulliberals on U.S. foreign policy, the U.S. had never made up its mind...
...police had no quick answers. But when the news of Duggan's death reached Washington, South Dakota's headline-hunting Republican Congressman Karl E. Mundt decided excitedly that he had them all. He called a midnight press conference and made a sensational announcement...
...first their preparations were scarcely perceptible. Skaters still weaved across Nan Hai Lake, near the Forbidden City. In the adjoining park, old gentlemen taking their caged songsters for an airing paused to compare birds. The lovely city (its name means "Northern Peace") expected, even looked forward to a quick, peaceful turnover...
...Memorial Union, one of the few places on any U.S. campus where 3.2 beer is sold, the jukebox blared Slow Boat to China. A waiter deftly scooped the head off three beers with one flick; a lone engineer, studying in a corner, made a quick calculation on his slide rule; and a tired-looking veteran's wife smacked her squalling youngster smartly on his bottom. Alumnus John Muir wouldn't have recognized the old place...
History Professor William Hesseltine files a minority report: "I was considerably happier over the generation of the '30s. These veterans have been harder workers-but except in technique, they're not as good. They don't have the quick, keen intellect or the inquiring disposition . . . The slogan of the '30s was 'Oh, yeah?' -a general, basic skepticism. This generation wants to believe something. It is looking for a quick and easy answer...