Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps in November. Hitler's ghost might wake the Hörselberg with sardonic laughter at the competition between the victors for Germany's favor. Yet so long as the Big Power conflict existed, competition for control of the most important nation in Europe was inevitable. If the game had to be played, why should the West, which held better cards, lose...
...laymen who have tagged along as best they might in the wake of the first year's argument and information, the picture can offer little that is factually new; nor does it pretend to answer still unanswerable questions of control. What makes it impressive, today and as a historical record, is its terse, clear, visual summary, its image, even in re-enactment of the men who brought the Age to birth...
This time, as the arriving U.S. delegation quietly drove through Paris, there were no pilgrims to proffer prayers and roses. No one thought of cheering "Byrnes the Just." Whatever the Peace of Paris might bring, it would not cause the corrosive disillusionment which came in the wake of 1919's extravagant hopes. On the conference's opening day, police set up wooden barricades near the Luxembourg Palace to keep the crowds back-but there were no crowds. At lunchtime, the Prefect of Police personally inspected the whole palace to make sure that it contained no bombs. Then...
...keeping on "friendly" terms with Russia, building up their export trade, following a Red-Green domestic policy that has not yet resulted in large-scale nationalization of industry or redistribution of land. The Finns are moving slowly and quietly, like a man tiptoeing for fear he'll wake a rough-&-ready neighbor...
...wake of Georgia's primary, 60-year-old Editor J. B. Hardy sat down and penned a bitter editorial for his Thomaston Times...