Word: reawakened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acid Test. Now, 15 years after the Massie case, the nation is confronted again by the problem of Hawaii's races,* and in a way which will reawaken in the U.S. Senate something of the same uneasiness aroused by the Massie affair. Hawaii is knocking at the nation's door. After almost half a century of territorial status, she wants to be admitted as the 49th state. Her aggressive spokesman is Joseph Farrington, an influential publisher, son of an immigrant from the mainland, and Hawaii's Delegate to the U.S. Congress...
...Quixote? Georges Bernanos' Rio publisher says of him, "He is alone, this man." Last year, in North America, Jacques Maritain was writing: "Crushed by the woes of Apocalypse, the French see no prophet rising from their people to tell the true horror of what has happened and to reawaken the spirit in its depths." At that time Bernanos, self-exiled to Brazil since 1938, was filling five-cent notebooks with his sermons on the true horror, written with an eloquence worthy of the greatest writers of France...
...took Damon's production shake-up to reawaken interest in Republic. Its prize plane, the high-flying Thunderbolt (P-47) had already won it a plump Army order (total: $56,500,000, some of which was ticketed for P-43s). But last week not a single Thunderbolt (except the "mock-up") had yet been delivered. Few weeks ago Major General "Hap" Arnold, Air Forces chief, dropped in at the Farmingdale, L.I. plant. He was so impressed by what he saw that the Army more than doubled Republic's backlog (to around...