Word: measureless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken a lifetime maturing in the writer's mind. It is a strong and savory tale of adventure with the first white hunters in the West. Honestly imagined and true to history, it is also a parable of the way the pioneers, as immoderate as children, took their measureless paradise and spoiled...
...every U.S. citizen, as well as to every statesman, the victory of peace had a solemn urgency it had never had before. In London, Winston Churchill said: "We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among nations and that, instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, they may become the perennial fountain of world prosperity...
...America. In 1941 over the world's measureless acres of misery the war lay like a burden too great to be carried, too great to be thrown off. The year 1940 had been the year of surrenders, but in 1941, from France to Poland, each day brought proof that the peace of surrender, balanced against the peace of death, left little choice between them...