Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help them find out, there appeared last week a startlingly timely, strenuously objective, 252-page book whose title, Why England Slept, paraphrased Winston Churchill's tocsin, While England Slept. Its author, John F. Kennedy, 23, who was graduated as an honor student from Harvard this June, is the second son of America's philoprogenitive Ambassador to Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy. Its purpose is to arouse Americans 1) to the need of preparing for war in time of peace; 2) to the necessity of preparing for war as if they mean to fight. Says Author Kennedy: "A boxer cannot...