Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief career at the side of the anti-Axis powers he had wrought good and evil. Dakar had fallen to the Allies without a shot. The progress of the U.S. campaign had been sped. But Darlan's assumption of power had also unleashed a storm of anger and criticism among Allied peoples, widening dangerously the already existing split between the supporters of Vichy and De Gaulle. It had involved the U.S. in a tangled skein of international politics which was becoming more & more involved. Termed by President Roosevelt a "temporary expediency," the Darlan regime was gaining a firmer foothold...
...score is, he had learned to see through big people and little people, he had absorbed some hazy ideas about the Intellectual and Social History of Western Civilization and had for better or worse grown up and set. And all the while the learned old ivy and the ageless wrought-iron gates had gotten more important than the skeptical Vagabond had ever thought they would. He appreciated the feelings of the man who wrote, "The saddest tale we have to tell, is when we bid old Yale farewell," only not Yale...
Surprising as was the havoc wrought along Pearl Harbor's battleship row, there were other eyebrow-raising items in the Navy's long-awaited report...
...WOLF IN MAN'S CLOTHING - Mignon G. Eberhart-Random House ($2). Nurse Sarah Keate-Mrs. Eberhart's major contribution to mystery story personalities-returns, accompanied by a sister nurse with a past. An expertly wrought, well-characterized, highly emotional tale of "accidental" shooting, purposeful poisoning and deep dark villainy in a secluded Berkshire mansion...
Morse's article told readers of the magazine of the great changes wrought at Harvard by the service influx, and some of the strange jobs now being done. In connection with administration he mentioned that the new type of institution has necessitated $300,000 worth of new bookkeeping equipment...