Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...style was equally unorthodox. Like his friendly enemy in a lifelong battle of wits, Bernard Shaw, Chesterton delighted in weaving his strictures against the unorthodox in a web of paradoxical wit. To freethinkers he said: "You are armed to the teeth and buttoned up to the chin with the great agnostic Orthodoxy, perhaps the most placid and perfect of all the orthodoxies of men. . . . I approach you with the reverence and the courage due to a bench of bishops...
...Roosevelt, in San Francisco last week after her 23,000-mile voyage to Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific battle stations, looked tired. Reporters found her thin. They missed her usual warmhearted gusto. Lines of weariness were traced on her face, netting her friendly blue eyes in a delicate web of fatigue. They were eyes that had seen much-perhaps too much for one who, along with her several other distinctions, is a mother with four sons in uniform...
Said Nancy: "I want the murderer of my father found." As Magistrate Field's pen scratched, she had seen a web of circumstance develop around her imperturbable husband...
...Web. Police said the murderer would have singed hairs from the fire. De Marigny submitted to a microscopic examination, was found to have singed hairs on arms, beard and head. He said he got them scalding chickens, lighting hurricane lamps. Police experts testified that a fingerprint identical with De Marigny's right little finger was found on a screen near Sir Harry's bed. De Marigny denied having been at Westbourne since March. De Marigny has never recalled what became of the shirt and socks he had on the day of the murder. Police testified that...
...Live Dangerously." With such threads Mussolini has tried to weave a web of resistance. He has told his people that an Allied victory means enslavement to imperialist powers. He has titillated their sense of personal honor and national pride, as he did in 1935 when he defied the sanctions imposed (but not enforced) by the League of Nations during the Ethiopian campaign. Italians rallied behind him then. They may do so more generally now than the Allies expect. At least Mussolini has built up a façade of bravado, patterned on the ancient cry of the gladiators...