Word: readjusters
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...above all the year when men were trying to readjust themselves in books to two years of political shocks, from Munich to Dunkirk, which challenged every value by which men had thinkingly or unthinkingly lived...
Greatest challenge was the triumphant emergence of a new human type, totalitarian man-superbly armed, deliberately destructive and dominant-at the very heart of what had been Europe's cultural sanctuaries. To this grim fact of 1940 men tried to readjust themselves in 1941 in books like Eugene Bagger's For the Heathen Are Wrong ($3); Gottfried Leske's I Was a Nazi Flier ($2.50); Hermann Rauschning's The Conservative Revolution ($2.75); William Henry Chamberlain's The World's Iron...
...excise taxes if only to have them on hand as bargaining points in wrangling with the House over broadening the income base. By merging last year's special defense tax with the surtax rate, the committee proposed to increase the lowest surtax rate from 5% to 6%, readjust upward the rate for higher brackets. What will happen to the committee's bill when it reaches the Senate floor, no one could foretell...
...appears that, as has long been suspected in well-informed circles, all the long men have short beds and all the short men have long beds. The Bedroom New Deal plans to readjust this inequality in favor of the Forgotten Six-footer...
...Stalin and Molotov doubtless counted on a longer war, possibly on the socialization of Europe in the process. When France collapsed, it was time to readjust the balance of power, if possible; at least to readjust Russia's defenses. So Russia marched...