Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Perhaps nine out of ten people on either side of the demarcation line want the British to win. The masses of French people believe the British to be their one hope of salvation. The Vichy Government, on the other hand, while no fonder of the Germans than the littlest Frenchman is, believes the Germans are going to win the war. The quicker they win it, the better it will be for France. After that it will be up to France's rulers to make the best possible deal with the Germans...
...more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events, the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by [its] side for causes of a different nature," wrote Physicist Albert Einstein addressing the gathering by proxy "To be sure, the doctrine of a personal god interfering with natural events could never be refuted ... by science for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. ... In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give...
...Yale was the first U. S. college to play football with eleven men on each side...
...chauffeur, section hand, longshoreman, gravedigger, author (Men on the Horizon), was standing by a window in his top-floor hotel room while a squadron of German bombers droned overhead. He was talking with two naval officers and his assistant, Australian Stanley Johnstone, when there was an explosion. The whole side of the hotel collapsed. Down through four floors dropped Newsman Murchie in a shower of timbers, bricks, soot, debris. He climbed out of the wreckage with his assistant. They dug the hotel's pretty receptionist from under a pile of timbers, extricated one naval officer...
...England falls. He points out that in that case no commitment, however solemn, short of America's participation in the war as an ally, can bind the British Fleet to sail to Canada or the U. S. Only if the U. S. were fighting by Britain's side could British sailors feel guaranteed that they and their ships would be used to reconquer their homes, free their families. Granting Brailsford's premises, his conclusion is inevitable: it is only enlightened self-interest for the U. S. to join Britain in the war at once...