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...great victories, suffered crashing defeats. For two days he even lost Berlin (to the Russians). But he was brilliant in defense and too stubborn to give up. In the end a change of rulers took Russia out of the war and Frederick got a treaty restoring the status quo ante...
This time, as Dittmar and every other intelligent German well knew, the status quo ante was utterly beyond recall. This time, Berlin would be lost for a good deal longer than two days. Frederick's very bones, enshrined at Potsdam, were in danger of falling into Russian hands. The Nazis removed them from the Potsdam vault to a secret place in the Thuringian Forest...
...quiet days of yore, before this world-shaking conflagration wrought havoc with the status quo, a date with a college girl was an event--an event that often rent the soul and spirit of a man College girls used to cost money...
Inching Along. The stolid American Medical Association, although still unconvinced, has finally given up its golden dream of preserving the status quo. It has even managed to swallow two pills: 1) some forms of group practice (like the Mayo Clinic), 2) voluntary group medical insurance (such as many big corporations now sponsor for their employes). But the A.M.A. has always opposed a combination of the two, in which the insured group hires a group of doctors to take care of its members...
...first hand, all this time, Alex watches Fascism become real, become bold, become imperious. A decent man, he is dismayed by what he sees; a muddled man, he hangs onto the hope that somehow good will come of evil; a man whose stake is in the status quo, he instinctively makes out a case for appeasement. No figure of real power himself, Alex yet remains the spokesman for the official blunders, delays, defections that made Munich no terminus but merely the last stop before Armageddon...