Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ivory tower, the editor of the Times will at last realize that the American people will not be bulldozed, regimented and stripped of their suffrage by fine phrases, chop logic, invitations to the millennium, and the jaded ambitions of indispensable...
Once the dollar-pound rate is stabilized, he would stabilize the other currencies of the world. This he did in two smooth sentences which declared the millennium: "The prerequisites for such stabilization are internal political stability, a constructive solution of the problem of trade barriers, a reasonable measure of economic well-being and the absence of inflation...
...right mind and with any sense of proportion expects the Millennium to emerge from this or any other war. But it can reasonably be expected that the Human Race will continue to strive for perfection always, and achieve it never. So why all the bother about what we are fighting for, or what the war is about? The real and true answer is not within the ken of human knowledge...
There is no substantial evidence that I know of to support the idea that President Wilson believed that "mankind could attain a kind of international millennium at one bound," or that he confused peace-making with other world needs, or that he blundered in placing the Covenant into the Treaty of Versailles, or that he failed to publicize his League idea before going to Paris...
...than 21 "peacemaking blunders" committed by the World War I President. Professor Bailey, author of the most readable modern book on U.S. diplomacy, A Diplomatic History of the American People, scored as "perhaps Wilson's most tragic blunder" his belief "that mankind could attain a kind of international millennium at one bound. He confused the task of making peace with Germany, which was an immediate need, with that of remaking the world, which was the long-range need...