Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flowers & Prayers. The French looked first. A few months after they had showered their U.S. liberators with flowers, they were praying for them to go home. Germans had reason to be grateful for the simple, human, unofficial compassion of thousands of G.I.s; but there had been rape, widespread looting and disorderliness. What was worse, most Europeans got the impression from extensive U.S. Army black marketing that most Americans will do anything for money. Nor could the billeting of U.S. officers' families in comfortable houses amidst a ruined people (quite justified) fail to cause ill will. The stare with which...
...drop? The new flu vaccine? Unlikely, thought experts; the Army, with fewer troops and fewer troop movements, has given no shots this year; civilian vaccination has not been widespread. Possible explanation: a decline in civilian (and G.I.) travel, fewer mass meetings, an end to factory swing shifts, more staying at home...
...government, the reports trickling out of China point to Chiang, not as a liberal ruler, but as a feudal baron eager for an absolute dictatorship. Returning G.I.'s, foreign correspondents, and Madame Sun Yat Sen question the pledges of Chiang, with tales of concentration camps, gruesome political murders, and widespread governmental corruption. The reports state that instead of the supposed progress in Nationalist controlled areas, China is still wallowing in the same old rut of poverty, famine, and ignorance, under the yoke of a regime unsupported by a great majority of the people. These generally obscured accounts seem to indicate...
Rueff, who was French Minister of Finance from 1936-40 and president of the Inter-Allied Reparations Council immediately following the war, gave a broad outline of the lack of housing, the inadequate food supply, and the widespread damage to rail and road lance of commerce...
...those that have created a housing shortage and unleashed an inflationary spiral, undergraduate veterans are today burdened with a greater number of academic, financial, and family worries than any previous group in the history of the College. Both the largest bloc of harried commuters in memory and the widespread student element concerned almost exclusively with the task of getting good grades help to underscore Harvard's overall lack of social integration and its studied aloofness. General uneasiness is the logical result of the universal desire to tie up a college education speedily and well...