Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consequent from mass appointments was realized when Andrew Jackson's friends tracked mud into the White House and into government agencies. A "big stick" in the hand of Teddy Roosevelt sponsored the infancy of civil service, but the verbal discipline of Franklin Roosevelt has not sufficed to prevent the rebirth of the old child of confusion...
...Norwegian. Each refugee knows a few such Germans. Let these refugees know that the names procured will be kept completely secret. . . . This list will be given to the commanders of the victorious armies of the United Nations who shall put these good Germans to the job of initiating the rebirth of the true German nation. RUDOLF SCHINDLER, M.D. Chicago...
...have been practicing democracy since before Western civilizations even learned the word. China is the one hope of building peace and decency in the East after victory. If she should fall because of lack of help from us, both moral and material, then there is little hope for any rebirth of freedom and peace in the Pacific...
...begins as a squadron of British planes roar in so low and so fast over Occupied France that the land beneath them flows and tilts like a stormy sea. This mood of hazardous intimacy is the fierce dramatic pacesetter for a picture of a totally defeated nation coming to rebirth by the simple act of refusing to concede itself licked...
...person who became known as Buddha devoted his life to seeking a way out of the unending cycles of rebirth to which the Hindu and his universe, through Siva, were bound. Through asceticism and contemplation Buddha found his goal of complete and final extinction (nirvana). His perfect enlightenment (bodhi) in this matter was what caused him to smile, and all his images to smile. On 57th Street in Manhattan last week they still smiled...