Word: webbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parisians the dream of history is caught in the web of streets where the Nazis last week stolidly laid waste-in preparation, it was said, for a rebuilding job designed by no less an architect than Adolf Hitler. A brave letter appeared in Figaro: "Paris, which in June of 1940 miraculously escaped trial by fire and the horror of destruction, is unexpectedly menaced by new destruction." The letter was signed by a group of intellectuals and painters, including Jean Giraudoux, Paul Valery, Paul Morand, Jean Cocteau, Andre Derain. The man in the street, passing the wreckers at work, simply muttered...
...consciousness technique was not original with Joyce but he became perhaps its greater master. His universal knowledge, with which only someone of Levin's stature could cope, enable him to sum up within himself all the threads of his literary past, and his genius succeeded in spinning a web for the future, though the reader may be led astray along the way by the maze, and the spinner himself may become over absorbed in the pattern...
...during the last two years of World War I. Although Argentina remained neutral throughout World War I her neutrality was benevolently pro-U.S. and pro-British. For that, much of the credit goes to Sumner Welles. In Rio, Mr. Welles's diplomacy will be reinforced by the web of cooperation and compromise which Brazil's Oswaldo Aranha wove in a recent good-will trip to Argentina, Uruguay and Chile...
...haul almost anything almost anywhere. Only ten years old, it has sold thousands of square-hooded, locomotive-like behemoths to lumbermen, miners, oilmen, highway departments. In the Louisiana oil fields M-H trucks are called "Mud Cats" because they slosh through hub-deep mud as though equipped with web wheels, in Western lumber camps they climb rough 40° grades so easily they are known as "Mountain Goats." In all, M-H has 33 models, going from five to 35 tons with six driving wheels, twelve forward and four reverse speeds. Special jobs include $130,000, 12-wheel...
Though the treaties themselves were not particularly important, it seemed likely that the first act of Acting President Mendez' official life might be very important indeed. Minister Aranha (whose name means "spider" in Portuguese) was openly rumored to be spinning a web. On his way to Chile he had stopped in Buenos Aires, and one guess was that behind the screen of unimportant business he was trying to weave Argentina and Chile together with his own country into an A.B.C. bloc. Lending substance to this guess was the report that he was prepared to offer loans and credits from...