Word: tides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tank and the body, four miles inside the Palestine border, were the not-very-high-watermark of the boasted Arab advance in Galilee. By last week the Arab tide had ebbed back to the borders, and beyond...
...said, "was reduced to an institution whose function it was to comfort the aged and to wipe the eyes of those who couldn't take it in the struggle of life. Now all our compromises, our sins, our apostasy are coming back to roost in one awful tide of judgment. And we are afraid of the Communists, afraid of the atomic bomb, afraid of a depression, afraid of Catholics, afraid of anything and everything fearful, afraid of God." Dr. Rutenber's remedy: to "return to God and the raw Christianity of our origins...
...Waterloo, seated on his great white horse, General Cambronne watched the tide of battle. When the elite of the French army, the Old Guard, smashed itself on British bayonets and was routed; when Napoleon exclaimed, "All is lost!" and fled; and finally, when Blücher's Prussians [supposedly immobilized] appeared on the field of battle-then it was that Cambronne uttered the word...
...anti-Communist tide was rising in other unions. At a convention of Abram Flaxer's red-rimmed United Public Workers, a group of delegates claiming to represent 10,000 federal, state and municipal employees declared themselves "fed up with the leftwing, anti-C.I.O. policies" of Flaxer and bolted the union...
...High Tide? The why of the breakthrough was hard for brokers to analyze. There had been no rosy market news. The explanation seemed to be that investors, who had been shooed away from buying by talk of recession, had finally realized that many a stock was vastly underpriced, and that profits had a good chance to stay high for some time to come. (The tax cut had also released some investment cash...