Word: vortex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a fascination in fear. There is a vortex that surrounds the concept of doom . . . No terror is greater than the unknown except the terror of the half-seen...
...group around Mr. Conant was almost impenetrable, a fact which caused fretting among these circling on the periphery. In the vortex, Mr. Conant was slowly revolving as questions--the usual questions--were...
Double Miracle? In the vortex of this gathering disaster, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was buoyant and determined. He dodged in & out of his private map room, saw dozens of visitors, counseled his field commanders by long-distance telephone. One day last week he drove through the cold rain to the cavernous National Assembly building, 20 minutes later emerged smiling. He had persuaded liberal Sun Fo, son of China's revered revolutionary leader Sun Yatsen, to become Premier in a new super war cabinet. Asked if the government planned to leave Nanking, Chiang said that no such plan was being...
When Britain was the leading industrial power it was also the great market for food and raw materials, and by virtue of this position in the vortex of world trade, the great exchange clearinghouse. The U.S., which replaced Britain in world power, was no clearinghouse; it consistently sold more abroad than it bought. Western Europe, no longer able to produce enough for its own needs, had to buy more & more from the U.S. and had fewer & fewer dollars to do it with. Unchecked, this imbalance will reduce Western Europe to poverty and Communism...
Died. Dame Lilian Braithwaite, D.B.E., seventyish, tart-tongued grand old lady of the English stage (The Vortex, Arsenic and Old Lace); of a heart ailment; in London...