Word: wasteland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concrete runways under a tent-a 600-ft.-long marquee which they rolled along the site as the concrete finally dried, hardened. On the muskeg moss plains of Annette they filled in foundations for runways with rock dynamited out of distant quarries and hauled laboriously over the mucky wasteland...
...mission headed by slick, handsome William Averell Harriman were men of all types but of one stripe: all were eagle-eyed, fact-minded men; some of them were first-rate U.S. production experts. One & all had a preconceived picture of Soviet Russia as a sorry, ignorant, grubby wasteland. The mission reported to the President at Hyde Park at the end of a week in which catastrophes approached. Instead of coming as expected messengers of disaster, they arrived as heralds of hope. Their collective prediction: Moscow will not fall...
Poet T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot attacked the Church in wasteland accents for letting Christian principle vanish from education. Sir Richard Acland was fiercer: "For over 150 years you have neglected your duty . . . because of sheer funk. . The whole structure of society ... is, from the Christian point of view, rotten and must permanently frustrate your efforts to create for the individual the possibility of a Christian life. . . . This has given Hitler the opportunity for saying 'To hell with the whole order.' He said this, and from despairing humanity he wrung forth a tremendous and dynamic response. ... In order...
Chad. First to plunge was the French Equatorial African colony of Chad (see map), a ragged trapezoid of sand dunes, wasteland and jungle strategically situated between Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Italian Libya (area: 461,202 sq.mi.; population: 549 whites, 1,432,000 natives). Lake Chad, on its western frontier, is an important junction of caravan routes, and a well-equipped air field at its capital, Fort-Lamy, makes it a desirable prize. Leader of the Chad revolt was black Civil Governor Adolphe Felix Sylvestre Eboue, French-educated rugby player whose administrative ability so impressed his superiors that he landed...
...were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed." Soon it was time for Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson's "dark tideless floods of nothingness." Soon Poet T. S. Eliot would find Boston "the wasteland of all the modern cities where the dry stone gave no sound of water" while Boston's "learned religiosity evoked in him a singular mode of Christianity-small faith, less hope, and no charity...