Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, and the Senate watched him with respect. Massachusetts' handsome young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. made a postwar speech remarkable in two important respects: 1) it took for granted that the debate about U.S. participation in the postwar world had proceeded from the whether to the how stage; 2) it stressed national self-interest in the clearest terms yet used...
...reached a decisive stage. . . . The enemy must be destroyed. . . . The situation in Attu was . . . very regrettable. ... It depressed his Imperial Majesty a little. It is Japan's immutable policy to .free Greater Asia from agelong Anglo-Saxon domination. . . . Enemy plans for a counteroffensive have been foreseen. . . . We are meeting them wherever they come. . . ." There was much more, but still nothing to explain convoking the nation's No. 1 sounding board...
Harwell wanted white rice and all the vitamins too. Brown rice (the stage be fore the bran and germ are removed) is both rich and edible, but it has never been as popular as white rice because it 1) looks less attractive and 2) keeps less well (the oil it contains becomes rancid). Harwell hunted for a process that would somehow transfer the valuable food elements from the outer coatings to the white kernel, but his pressure cooker experiments were failures...
...show so much that they call their jail Duffy's Tavern. The program contains some of radio's oddest characters. Duffy, proprietor of a Third Avenue saloon where "the elite meet to eat," never shows up, is merely a stubborn Irish character on the telephone. Another off-stage character is a man with two heads named Two-Top Gruskin, who once attended a masquerade as a pair of book ends holding a book entitled My Son, My Son. Man-crazy Miss Duffy, the boss's daughter and pure Tenth Avenue, is Gardner's pretty, redheaded exwife...
...jumps to the conclusion that, if this machine remains in private hands, the movement toward an American imperialism will be swift. World War II is a battle against counterrevolution, a battle in which the collapse of Hitler and Mussolini will mean no more than the end of an important stage in clearing the decks for a new society...