Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first secretary at Britain's Washington embassy during World War II, broad, black-haired Isaiah Berlin developed two bad habits: he was always late to work (he likes to sleep until 10:30), and always the last to appear at a dinner party. No one minded. His flashing dinner talk never failed to charm Washington hostesses and capital pundits. And his brilliant reports on U.S. thinking and doing made him Winston Churchill's most penetrating official observer of wartime America...
...Epics. But the congestion and confusion, Berlin decided, had also a more sinister cause. U.S. universities, he found, were plagued by an enervating sense of guilt-a "state of mind of academic persons . . . whom war service or some other sharp new experience has made painfully aware of the social and economic miseries of their society. Like the youthful Kropotkin ... a student or professor in this condition wonders whether it can be right for him to continue to absorb himself in the study of, let us say, the early Greek epic at Harvard, while the poor of south Boston go hungry...
...crack artilleryman, Texas-born General Moore built up a record (better than 10%) average of antiaircraft destruction on Corregidor. With General Wainwright, theater commander, he surrendered the island to the Japanese and set out on the Bataan Death March to spend three years in Japanese prisons. After the war, he was Army commander in the Pacific, retired eight months ago after 40 years' service...
...Hilton ran into tradition of another kind. For years the $30 million Stevens, world's biggest (3,000 rooms) hotel, had stood like a half-filled honeycomb as a monument to the folly of its builders. The Army used it as a barracks at the beginning of the war, and in 1943 Chicago Contractor Stephen Healy bought the white elephant and caught Hilton's eye by making it pay in the war boom that was suddenly filling all hotels. But when Hilton began to bargain for the Stevens, he met his match in Healy. The contractor jacked...
Flophouse Nights. Politics was not for Connie either and he started a bank, San Antonio's first. When World War I came, he enlisted. Two years in the Army and a year as a lieutenant in France opened Hilton's eyes to the world beyond New Mexico. He had sold his little bank, and in 1919 (after his father died) he set out for the oil-rich town of Cisco, Texas, looking for bigger game. Instead of a bank, Hilton bought the shaky old Mobley Hotel with $5,000 of his own money, $15,000 from friends...