Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple a proposition as that had been all that World War II had argued. Ten years after, the lesson seemed worth the price...
...Ironic" was the cheap and easy word for his and the Western world's change of attitude. Ten years after, four years after, was there a better word for the twist that had made the two great enemies of freedom the bulwarks against freedom's newly recognized enemy? Was the word redemption? Had the suffering of the vanquished expiated their guilt...
...Ten years after, four years after, the free world could hardly be said to have a new path, a new way of its own. But paths, they say in New England, are made by going around rocks. The Western world had found what it wanted to avoid. In the warlike peace, it had discovered a little of a new pride in its old standards. It had almost learned new humility in which the Germans and the Japanese, for all the evil they had done, might become comrades in the struggle against evil...
...front of the United States Information Service library in Prague last week, sizable crowds stood staring into a large display window. The display consisted of some 200 portraits of assorted world notables, all taken from the covers of TIME. In the center, in large letters, was writ ten: "Who Are They?" Britain's Princess Margaret was there, side by side with Russia's Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, Hollywood's Gregory Peck, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, and the theater's redoubtable Tallulah Bankhead. At week's end, one of the 200 faces had been changed...
Bombay's health department, by using some statistical mumbo jumbo, had concluded that the city's rat population was 3,200,000 and that each rat's gnawing cost ten rupees ($3.02) a day. When the city councillors heard that last week, they got into a squabble along ideological lines...