Word: illusionality
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Along the 60th parallel, on the chilled hell's highway of the north Atlantic, the U.S. last week lost the illusion that it was not engaged in a shooting war.
The illusion faded when the U.S.S. Kearny (rhymes with Blarney), a crack destroyer scarcely a year in service, was torpedoed. But the illusion did not disappear until the nation felt the dull visceral shock of reading its first casualty list of World War II, reading of its own men "The...
"There is no practical basis for a British counter-offensive on the European continent. It is an illusion pure and simple," Major Thomas Thomas, eminent military author, stated vigorously on the Crimson Network's "Faculty Views The News" feature last night.
Comment: "Peace can never be assured merely by seeking to reserve armament exclusively for those nations which are so satisfied that they seek only to maintain the status quo. This was the great illusion of Versailles." Since "the world is a living, and thus a changing, organism," the eight points...
Later, as French Foreign Minister, the defrocked bishop had thought long & hard about the universal panic, had found a simple explanation: "The abuse of force terrifies the one who commits it more than the victim. . . . Only a government with . . . no fear will be able to see through the illusion of...