Word: whole
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the State Department's flaccid indecisiveness in the whole affair, the Chinese Communists had apparently bowed to international indignation and, more important, to their desire for diplomatic recognition and the right to represent China in the U.N. Ward's release came only a day after the U.S. appealed to 30 nations (including Russia) for help in freeing the consul general and his aides...
...employing such eminent men as Judge Samuel Rosenman, Playwright Robert Sherwood, Brain Truster Raymond Moley and Poet Archibald MacLeish. Dean of them all, and perhaps the shrewdest, was the late Charley Michelson, longtime pressagent for the Democratic Party, whose typewriter supplied uncounted Democratic bigwigs with taunts that made a whole generation of Republicans miserable...
West Germany is desperately short of housing (it needs an estimated 8,000,000 two-room apartments). More than a third of the West Germans live in close, degrading quarters, whole families cramped into fetid, single rooms, the sick and infirm bedded beside the children. Nerves wear thin, minds grow bitter in the stifling intimacy of want. Among the demoralized, cheap vice grows weedlike and ugly. In bomb-battered Essen, one of the first businesses to recover was the red-light district: harlots' row was rebuilt while the rest of the city lay in rubble...
...service's most significant work, according to its director Charles L. Grace, is "helping to keep the University's material in one piece." Grace reported that his staff frequently supplies outsiders with photostats of a few pages of rare books so the library need not send away whole volumes. In this way, Grace said, the University runs less a risk of losing its valuable possessions...
...Considering the group as a whole," it claims, "college is believed to have been of value in almost every aspect of life...