Word: thither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombs soared into the air and burst a thousand feet above the harbor into terrible yellow blossom. Shrapnel peppered the brick walls of the warehouses, plowed the planks off the pier, and rained down upon the hissing waters. Shells shot hither & thither, exploding under the touch of the terrific heat and shooting their missiles at random. Some of the shrapnel shells fell even in Manhattan. On the pier arose a white glare as of a million mercury-vapor lights...
...called for Home Rule. "Thousands who come to see this new wonder, a beautiful woman who makes speeches," wrote Yeats, "remain to listen with delight. . . . The papers of Russia, France, Germany and even Egypt quote her speeches, and the tale of Irish wrongs has found its way hither and thither...
China's story is not all one of civil war, economic fever and malice domestic. Last week, it was spring in Hangchow, the city of Buddhist temples and merry poets, and Chinese in holiday mood were making their annual pilgrimage thither. Armed with a well-thumbed copy of Herbert Allen Giles's translations of Chinese verse, TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin joined them. His report...
...problems of Europe cannot be solved by shifting frontiers hither and thither as has been done for many centuries, always resulting in new wars. The tendency to create closed national states by wholesale expulsions of entire populations surrounded by insurmountable walls, will inevitably lead to general impoverishment and disturbances of international relations. On the other hand, if the peace is to be a lasting one, frontiers must cease to be impediments to the free flow of men, merchandise, ideas and news...
Only one building had not been blown apart-the small inn. In its basement were big casks of wine and rows of bottles. There each night went one U.S. outpost patrol. Thither also (at a different hour) went one German patrol. The patrols never met. They spied on, but never surprised each other. It was too good a thing to be ruined...