Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mastering the previous stage of its job. If at any point the Authority broke down, the U.S. and other nations would be left with just about the same advantage (in stockpile of bombs, uranium plants, know-how, etc.) which they could expect to have in an unrestricted atomic arms race...
...reabsorb or support them. Veterans legislation was a hodgepodge and the Veterans Bureau was a scandal until President Harding made a halfhearted attempt to clean it up; then the bureau became more concerned with economy-those were the days of Coolidge and Hoover-than philanthropy. Veterans plunged into race riots. The jobless sold apples, and in 1932 marched on Washington. The Government drove them out with cavalry and tanks while the nation watched in shame...
...hands at blasting and nudging their craft clear into the whelping ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...
With an arrogant aphorism he denied using the term "master race": "If you are a master, you don't have to emphasize it." It was a remarkable show of bravado; it was also a telling demonstration of the Nazis' inability to deal with the world on any but their own amoral terms. Goring dramatically concluded his 55,000-word oration with a misquotation from Churchill: "In the struggle for life and death there is no legality...
...little fable of Good & Evil when he banishes the ducks he loves and sublimates the duck-killing turtles he abominates into a best-selling soup. "Turtle soup," chortles the adman, captioning a pallid portrait of a lady in crinolines, "saved the sweethearts and mothers of a proud and gallant race." Another neighbor, variously known as Blackburn, Malatesta and Swarzkopf, turns out to be the Devil, and delivers some of Author Wilson's most envenomed and heartfelt opinions (notably on Stalinism) in a monologue written entirely in French...