Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Creon as portrayed in this play is the archtype of the fascist leader--the man who says he took the wheel of the shop "only because it was sinking and somebody had to help." It is not difficult to see why the play was allowed to be performed in occupied France: the appeal of Creon is probably the stronger of the two to most audiences, conditioned as we are to politics over principle...
Fifteen years passed. England was torn by civil war. Honor, crippled for life, was politically very much on her toes; she sped about the King's business in a wheel chair. Richard, very unhappy with his wife (he now had "a brown, weather-beaten air about him"), was appointed King's General in the West. When he bumped into Honor at the Cavalier headquarters he said, rather tactlessly: "I had not thought to find you so damnably unchanged." Then he asked: "Have you not your own apartment?" Said Honor with "some small attempt at dignity": "It would...
...bravely as a match flickering in the night, the Paris L'Ordre sought cheer for mankind. "Visit the Hostel of Three Mallets in the Latin Quarter," it advised. There, in subterranean chambers, the visitor sees medieval instruments of torture. St. Catherine's Wheel is most gruesome. It rests on a base studded with nails. A victim bound to the wheel was raised or lowered in relation to the base; as the instrument turned, his flesh was torn at the desired speed and depth...
...even talk of something which the U.S. had not had in years, a balanced budget. But those who could see that in 1945 were farsighted. Yet the drop in federal spending had failed to halt the tremendous momentum of the economy. It rolled on like a great water wheel, gushing out money. It rolled into retail stores, movies, bank accounts. And much of it rolled out again to gas up the gaudiest Christmas spending spree in years. Yet, as store shelves were swept clean, there was little, as yet, in the cupboard to fill them up again...
...vast space is an ideal place in which to make cars and tractors, if the assembly lines can be made to tick smoothly. Plump, dapper Joe Frazer, optimistic as usual predicted that the Frazer would start coming off the lines in March, the Kaiser, with a front-wheel drive, by the middle of April. By July 1, he expects Willow Run to be in peak production of 1,500 cars...