Word: warless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this single point, each Senator rapidly retired to his own side of the ideological street. Bob La Follette took his stand as a hardheaded U.S. nationalist whose Midwest idealism has made him suspicious of foreign entanglements. Joe Ball, whose Midwest idealism has fired him with the vision of a warless world, pushed ahead to the farthest outpost of internationalist thought...
Among Grandpappy's recent errands was a flight from an eastern Pacific base to the U.S. mainland, carrying 40 enlisted men home after many months on the unexciting, warless fringes of civilization. He has borne hundreds of girls from Miami to government jobs in the Canal Zone. Said a crew member: "The gals like him. They know they can trust Grandpappy...
Good example of taleteller's detachment is The Stone of Chastity (Little, Brown; $2.50), a bit of delicate bawdry in a warless, now almost mythical England, written by a Malta-born curlylocks named Margery Sharp, author of The Nutmeg Tree. Professor Isaac Pounce disrupts the village of Gillenham by uncovering a legendary steppingstone from which unchaste lassies, unfaithful wives invariably slip into the brook.* Miss Carmen "Smith," the artists' model, slipped of course; but nobody expected that the stone would reveal the professor's mild nephew, Nicholas, to be a bastard-or that Nicholas would rejoice...
...World War I, with a passionate conviction on both sides that victory would automatically end the evils that led to war. It is not likely to end in the mood of the Armistice of 1918, when millions believed that peace terms alone could bring into existence a new, warless and equitable world order...