Word: upped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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5. "I can feel the sufferings of millions; and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again."
Still, there were many days in the early years of the war when the situation looked bleak, when it seemed impossible that the Allies could overcome the lead the Axis powers enjoyed. Through those dark days, Roosevelt retained an imperturbable calm. To the endless wonder of his aides, he was...
As Eleanor traveled the country in the months after her husband's death, she was overwhelmed by the emotion of all the people who came up to her, telling her how much they had loved her husband. Porters at the station, taxi drivers, doormen, elevator operators, passengers on the train...
3. "[He] rose out of murky obscurity and carried his country with him up & up into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world."
16. "Whether or not [he] had written down the Armageddon of the West, he had showed up the lightweight poetry dominating American magazines ... [His] poem went off like a bomb in a genteel drawing-room, as he intended it to."