Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Web of Prejudice." She wrote from "misinformation, ignorance or prejudice," he said. He would have ignored her "personal attack," but she had continued her "anti-Catholic campaign." Now "your misstatements should be challenged in every quarter of our country where they have already spun and spread their web of prejudice...
Last week the White House reversed CAB. At the order of the President, CAB awarded a web of overseas routes to Resort Airlines. (CAB still has to pass on a request for domestic routes.) They fan out from New York, Chicago and six other cities to foreign vacation spots. Thus, Resort became the first U.S. carrier certified to handle packaged tours only...
Yale University is caught in a mystifying web of "cold war" security. So is Harvard. So is M.I.T. So is the country. What makes Yale different is that Yale is scared--scared right out of its civil liberties. The older faculty men, secure in tenure appointments, are just worried. Certain faculties, notably those of the law and medical schools, are not even worried. But the younger faculty members and the graduate students, especially in the physics department are scared stiff. "We're afraid to open our mouths on any idea left of Wilsonian liberalism," one physics instructor says. Other young...
...portable concrete harbors and LCT's which he had first blueprinted in World War I) and a mass of experience concerning everything from seas and men to small arms and bomb fuzes. Above all, he sets out to turn the menaced island nation into "a spider's web of communications...
Some sectors of the web stand out with special pathos or splendor: aged members of the Home Guard clutching club and pike; the tormented heroes of the bomb-disposal squads, whose faces "seemed different from those of ordinary men . . . gaunt. . . haggard . . . bluish . . . bright, gleaming eyes and exceptional compression of the lips; withal a perfect demeanour"; the dispossessed in the bombed-out ruins of Peckham, whose cheerful fortitude brought tears to the Prime Minister's eyes. The web's perimeter, the deep-indented, 2,000-mile British coastline, is rounded off by the unsleeping, patrolling navy, evoking from...