Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over, but peace was only the absence of war. Over Europe lay the heavy hand of political turmoil and hunger, the unfathomable problems of reconstruction and reparations. The Middle East was torn with strife, Asia racked by revolt. Even the fortunate Western Hemisphere contained some of the tightest dictatorships in modern history...
...Washington, where most Congressmen were aware of the turmoil, Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg stepped up with a plan for industrial peace. He proposed that top spokesmen for labor, management and Government get around a conference table, face their problems in the manner of the United Nations. Asked Vandenberg: "Is it impossible to apply this formula at home in respect to vital industrial relationships?" Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach promptly agreed it was a good idea...
...cultured administrator sympathetic to Indian aspirations, less concerned with his office than with Indian good will. To Gandhi (then in jail) he wrote: "I am in entire accord with that aim [Indian self-government] and only seek the best means to implement it without delivering India to confusion and turmoil...
...last he had to concede: "The struggle against the Maffia will cease, not when the Maffia has ceased to exist, but when all memory of the Maffia has vanished from the minds of Sicilians." Last week the Maffia was making new memories which might keep Sicily in turmoil for some time to come. The Maffia had seldom had more volcanic soil to work...
Meanwhile, France voluntarily withdrew from the Italian island of Elba, which her North African troops occupied last May. It was to Elba that Napoleon was first exiled. From Elba he dashed back to restore Europe to its traditional turmoil during the Hundred Days. As A.M.G. authorities (British and U.S.) took over the rocky little island last week, the French might well ponder upon the famed palindrome attributed to Napoleon. Read backward or forward, it led to the same historic conclusion: "Able was I ere I saw Elba...