Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embittering to fight the "superior race" myth halfway round the world, only to see its fundamental tenets being flagrantly promoted at home. It would seem more in accord with justice to deport and dispossess not Japanese-Americans, but all members of the Japanese Exclusion League...
...plan. Twice contending armies had fought clear across the country, leaving blackened towns, blown-up bridges, ripped-up railroads, scuttled river craft. But their Indian neighbors, nursing their own frustrated dreams of independence, commented bitterly. Said New Delhi's Hindustan Times: "A vague promise of this kind, hedged round with such conditions that they can always serve as an excuse for doing little, is nothing but a cruel piece of casuistry." In London a Burmese moderate, Sir Htoon Aung Gyaw, adviser to the governor of Burma, warned Britain bluntly: the Burmans want no interim government but a constituent assembly...
...days in a new earthen pot. . . . When these animalcula or living atoms moved, they put forth two little horns, continually moving. . . . These little creatures, if they chanced to light on the least filament or string, or other particles, were entangled therein, extending their body in a long round and endeavoring to disentangle their tail. . . . I have seen several thousands of these poor little creatures, within the space of a grain of gross sand, lie fast clustered together in a few filaments...
Without the interruption of an impish, hillbilly doggerel song (Round and Round Hitler's Grave) Triumph's unrelieved pounding at its worthy message (internationalism) sometimes takes on the sound of an hour-long lecture; and occasionally, with the best intentions in the world, it is mawkishly patronizing about the little people to whom it is addressed. Yet the best of Corwin is a kind of poetry, and is U.S. radio at its best...
...trucks could be assembled from the large stock of parts on hand. Apparently, the mauling given the German railroad system by Allied airmen had not entirely blocked the delivery of carburetors, engines, chassis, etc., from subcontractors throughout Germany. Promptly G-5 summoned the Burgomaster of Cologne, ordered him to round up Ford workers, get them back to work. Their production last week: ten trucks a day, delivered to the U.S. Army for transporting supplies...