Word: restedness
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Within the territory still nominally under her rule, France saw the fabric of control disintegrating. Native uprisings, inspired partly by Japanese but mostly by bitter hatred of the French, were rampant in Tonkin, Cochin-China and Cambodia. Even among native troops bloody clashes occurred between Moroccan legionaries and Indo-Chinese...
Fitzgerald, in fact, was the sole author of his own dilemmas. He was the last survivor of a generation that never grew up-or rather of its period of hectic ar rested development. This period he had fixed memorably in a series of remarkable prose movies: This Side of Paradise...
Something more crucial than Bogdan Filoff's stomach ulcers was discussed in those feverish sessions. That something could only have been one thing: whether or not to grant Germany troop transit through Bulgaria or at least use of air bases in Bulgaria, so that the big end of the...
He had talked nearly an hour with Secretary of State Hull by telephone during the morning. That night he headed north, reached Washington the next chill, drizzly afternoon, at the White House again talked with Mr. Hull. In the rain outside, men & women sloshed up & down Pennsylvania Avenue, now & then...
But for Sidney Hillman, Labor's division last week might have been worse. On his shoulders rested a double responsibility. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins vaguely denied a circumstantial report by the New York Times that she had finally pinned on her hat and resigned. But Sidney Hillman had...