Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HUDSON RIVER EEL: This elusive creature is highly sensitive and gives off sparks when touched. Has powerful instinctive drive toward waters of the Potomac River. Travels alone, having had trouble with schools...
...automobiles crashed at high speeds with noisy regularity. But nobody seized upon this as evidence that man was finding new freedoms. The trend in manners & morals was in the other direction. The U.S. people seemed to be looking for values they had dropped in their long and precipitous scramble toward larger horizons...
...Infinite Variety. The country exhibited no discernible unrest, no passion for plunging toward new ideas or new philosophies. Literature leaned heavily on the historical novel which, by a curious transformation, seemed to provide the only public expression of the libido. Historical novels were most noteworthy for their dust jackets, all of which seemed to boast a red-lipped siren with a low-cut dress and an incredibly pneumatic bust. U.S. intellectuals, who had once ranged from the Paris Left Bank to Communism's left wing, had come home to roost. It was a little saddening to the more daring...
...best qualified to measure Europe's progress toward peace and economic health reported their finding to the U.S. last week in a glow of confidence. One was ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, who was off on another round of talks in Europe, announcing "spectacular" results. Said Hoffman: "The complete recovery of Western Europe can be expected by 1952 even if the Soviet satellites continue to block trade between Eastern and Western Europe." The other report came from General Lucius Clay, home on a 27-hour visit from his headquarters in Germany to make his first direct report to the U.S. people...
...mention the change in the general attitude toward Memorial Hall not to criticize the manners of the present, for I think the change was inevitable with the passing of the Civil War generation; but the fact remains that the memorial aspect of the Hall has been impaired, due partly, perhaps, to the obsolescence of its design and physical structure...