Word: rested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commonwealth of Nations* is one of the largest associations known to history -and one of the most difficult for the rest of the world to understand. It binds together 580 million people in all parts of the world in common trade, common defense, and-up to a point-a common outlook on life. The Commonwealth nations are not joined by formal treaties. They are free to leave any time. The forces which hold them together are as subtle, delicate and elusive to the prying outsider as the forces which bind the atom. The one formal, legal Commonwealth bond: the British...
...harried businessmen and the hapless middle class he burbled: "With the victory of the Chinese Communists, half the world's people are now Communist. Communism is the future. Japan must trade with the rest of Asia to survive, and all the rest of Asia is rapidly going Communist. Trust us ... We will reconstruct Japan and make it bright and happy...
Claire Chennault, wartime skipper of the Flying Tigers, back home with his Chinese bride and three-month-old daughter for a rest and a couple of congressional hearings on China, took a fighter's view of the whole situation: "I have seen it a lot worse for us in China and the Pacific than even it is now, and I have seen us turn it around and win . . . There are millions and millions of Chinese who don't like Communism and will fight...
...footage available to illustrate each military operation has necessarily determined the shape of the film; in turn, the film has often gained in comprehensibility by giving shape to the shapelessness of war. The words of the book, where possible, have been used as commentary to the pictures; for the rest, MOT has filled in the story in a useful, modest prose...
...special edition of one copy printed for him every day. Last week the Star printed a one-copy edition for Barbara. Said the special story: "Barbara is getting along just fine. She's going to be all right before long." In the Star's regular edition, the rest of Tucson was let in on the secret...