Word: easier
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...members, eleven local chapters and an organization drive that was going like a house afire. In Washington, national committee members included such strange company as socially conscientious Kathryn Lewis (daughter of John L.) and socially conspicuous Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Just what the organization was after remained obscure: it was easier to see what it was against than what it was for. And what the committee was against was getting the U. S. into the war. General Wood last week adduced some further arguments to the National Association of Manufacturers' meeting in Manhattan...
Britain breathed easier, hoped that both ends of the Mediterranean were now secure...
...President had hoped to fish for striped bass, but the cold, blustery rain continued for most of the week; there was no fishing. It was easier to withstand than the Nazi rain that was falling on London, on Coventry. Even more serious for England was the war Nazi Germany was waging at sea, hacking at the British lifeline. If England could not get the cargoes of food and material she ceaselessly needed, she might be starved into submission. No one understood that better than the man aboard the Potomac...
...cause one whit. For Russia fears nothing from any nation on earth except Germany. Fear of Germany and shrewd appraisal of Germany's needs help to lead Russia into bargains with Germany. Last year's bargain gave Russia a year of peace, new territory, and easier frontiers to defend. This year's bargain, whatever it may be, was probably designed with the same ends in view...
...blank wall," he wrote 2,200 words a day. Now & again he would storm out to take furious potshots with his .22 rifle at squirpling sparrows. When Arundel was finished in 1929, Novelist Roberts decided that "the life of a railroad track-worker or a lumberjack may often be easier." But he has been writing historical novels ever since...