Word: global
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lest global optimists be taken in likewise, official sources last week were cautious about making predictions. "It is still too early for quantitative estimates," said a report from Washington, "but figures thus far received indicate that . . . the harvest in Europe during 1948 is likely to show an increase over that of the past two years." There were many problems of recovery, like Britain's dollar shortage and the gaping worldwide need for machinery and raw products, that a few days of fine weather could never solve. But if the winter had not insured Europe's recovery...
...Mother Earth's ailments, and the most mysterious. Mongolian lamas used to assure their followers that the world rests on the back of a monstrous frog whose every muscle twitch causes a temblor. Natives of Mozambique logically decided that their quake of 1891 was just a case of global chills & fever. Scientists now believe that the earth's crust is a mosaic of big, loose blocks that roll and toss every time they are jarred out of line. San Francisco is close to a "fault" between two such blocks. But most earthquakes are relatively harmless: the earth...
...Apologies. Single-minded Henry Stimson makes no apologies for his yardstick, which actually was big enough to measure only one phase of the global war, and inadequate for calculating the political possibilities. Thus he scorns Churchill's preference for "the right hook," which Stimson contends was intended only as a war of attrition in Italy and the Balkans, but which could actually have changed the course of history in Central Europe...
Pathetic Fallacy. In the world beyond Flushing Meadow and the U.N. agenda, there was creeping crisis on a global scale-in Asia, in Europe, and in the minds of many men. Peace treaties had indeed been signed with Italy and other Axis satellites, but the countries still faced questions as grave as any that had been settled. No treaties with Germany and Japan were in sight. It had been Franklin Roosevelt's Grand Design, epitomized in his gamble at Yalta, that the West could reach an understanding with Soviet Russia. In continuation of the wartime alliance (and in exchange...
Please Do Not Disturb. When the representatives of 55 nations and some 1,787,436,000 people finally took their places in the Hall at Flushing Meadow, there would be 62 items on the agenda, ranging from the adoption of a U.N. flag to the question of global prostitution. There would be all the old headaches-Palestine, Greece, the Indians in South Africa, disarmament, the veto, the Balkans -and a few new ones...