Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vatican may resolve its relationship with the dictators and democracies, no man can tell. Pope Pius last fortnight took refuge in metaphor. "Peace," said His Holiness to a thousand pilgrims, "is a white dove that, finding no place to land over a ground covered with corpses and submerged in a deluge of violence, seems to have returned to that ark of the new alliance, the heart of Jesus, to reappear only when it will finally be able to pluck from the tree of the gospel the green branch of brotherly chanty among men and peoples...
From Germany came reports that Mr. Welles had been just as big a puzzle to Germans. The New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick, quizzing some who had sat in on one of Welles's conversations with officials, unearthed a Nazi metaphor; Mr. Welles, they said, "seemed as objective, photographic and receptive as a wax disc...
Three Legs. His first press conference was prophetic. He swaggered in with a tricky metaphor on the tip of his tongue: Japan today is a tripod, whose legs are "disposal of the China Incident, international questions, and domestic problems. . . . A tripod cannot be stable unless all three legs are in position. . . ." He ended up having confessed he had no specific plans to end the war, no idea when the Wang Ching-wei puppetry could be set up, no more definite formula than "elimination of the causes of trouble" in clearing up the tangle of foreign relations, no economic nostrums...
...several centuries too late for Pius XII to proclaim officially a crusade, but His Holiness gave every sign last week of finding the metaphor chosen by Cardinal Verdier felicitous. With joy the French primate received a letter entirely in the handwriting of Pius XII. "We desire ardently," wrote the Pope, "that Catholic France, overcoming the difficulties of the present hour, achieve in ever greater degree her noble vocation of apostleship and civilization, which Divine Providence has assigned to her in the concert of nations...
...Hrdlicka still said No. Commentator Hooton changed his metaphor: "It now begins to appear that the perennial heroism of one Dutch boy at the dyke is likely to prove insufficient to stop the in creasing trickles of fossil man through the geological defenses...