Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Christina Stead, author of the widely acclaimed House of All Nations (TIME, June 13, 1938), describes with mordant skill the turmoil within her young heroine, the schoolteacher who seemed such a prude but who alone in her room paraded her nudity in obscenely contrived costumes and prayed to Venus for fulfillment. Less convincing is Author Stead's description of Teresa's attempt to find an answer to her prayers...
...revelation that Sicily was once again becoming a political football at the toe of the Italian boot. Britain was reported to be toying with Sicilian separatism, and with the idea of restoring the long-defunct kingdom of Sicily. To Sicilians, uncomfortably conscious of the rising tide of leftist political turmoil on the mainland, the idea was attractive...
...good. "We National Socialists," he had written 20 years ago, "terminate the endless German drive to the south and west of Europe, and direct our gaze towards the lands in the east." Last week the Nazi satellites and the Nazi-occupied lands of the east were in turmoil...
Dempsey said the enemy was in a "considerable turmoil," and that Nazi communications were "in a very sticky state" from Allied air attacks. But he added a quiet warning: the Germans had evidently massed the heaviest weight of armor ever wielded in western Europe. There was no doubt about it: the battle ahead would be an Armageddon...
...hypnotic sleep, through abysses of unspeakable sacrifice and constrain others to a war of extermination that drains their life blood. . . . This fear should give way to a well-founded expectation of honorable solutions; solutions that are not ephemeral or carry the germs of fresh turmoil and dangers to peace, but are true and durable...