Word: tumults
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Political tumult broke out last week with the loud echoing of Joseph Stalin's words of the week before. "... Only one thing is required: that the Allies fulfill their obligations fully and on time." The Allied peoples still did not know whether Joseph Stalin had been promised a second front, or whether he thought so. Dopesters worked up many interpretations of Stalin's remarks. But the greatest revelations of the week were a few cold facts...
Mexicans, to the tumult of war cries...
...toughened-up career diplomat (his wife knitted socks with a revolver at her side while he dug air-raid shelters in Addis Ababa), trouble-wise Envoy Engert knows the Axis technique of penetration and disruption. He also knows that Afghanistan's 245,000-square-mile "kingdom of tumult" is the doorway through which all the land armies of history have fought their way to the riches of India...
...country was in another tumult over labor. The South led the uproar. Every day on its front page Oklahoma City's Oklahoman asked that its readers "solemnly pledge that I will refuse to vote for the re-election of any U.S. Senator or Congressman who does not consistently vote for a law outlawing all strikes in every industry connected with defense and who does not vote to abolish the limitations of 40-hour week labor...
...astonishing thing about Western culture is that it has developed in the midst of internal and external strife. England was living dangerously when Shakespeare was composing his sonnets and writing his plays; the tumult of battle runs through much of his work. While Louis XIV ruined France financially in his desperate bid for glory on the battlefield, Moliere wrote his brilliant social comedies. These and other great playwrights through the ages wrote on the problems of their times, but they saw further than the playwrights of today. Shakespeare put his themes on the level of universality, not basing them...