Word: won
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...keep his precarious sanity, he has to resort to one mental prop after another. He mulls over the memory of his grandfather, a crusty, brave old Civil War Cavalryman. He forces himself to concentrate on the unlikely chance of a long, happy life with Maria after the Revolution is won. Everlastingly he talks to himself, standing aside and sizing himself up. But he finds out, as all his fellow-sufferers must, that this is a symptom of his discase, and not a cure. It only makes the ailment worse, for this is a kind of mental sickness that feeds upon...
Riotous sabbaths at Cambridge University had brought his short undergraduate career to a degreeless close, but he promptly and incongruously enough prepared a learned Latin tract on proper observance of the Lord's day. And it was the fame of this which won him the headship of the young college...
...principle behind the dispute was the same principle which has won Director Kanin, onetime handyman for Broadway Producer George Abbott, his letter in Hollywood after only three years. Earnest and honest in his work, he is a dissenter from the old director's trick of stamping films with a personal emblem like the Lubitsch "touch." The quick Kanin success has been based on the un-Hollywood device of taking the performers' personalities out of a screen play, centering the emphasis on the development of the author's characters...
England had won World War I. The price was nervous exhaustion, loss of the will to power. The post-war generation was shot through with futility, discontent, hatred. Churchill perceived that "the decisive battles would be fought for the soul, the will, the morale of his nation." He set about it, for he also perceived that World War I would not be the last...
Whereas the Declaration, for example, seethes over British use of "merciless Indian Savages," Lamb remarks that 1) Americans first invited the Indians' aid in 1775, 2) Americans had won the tribes' enmity with endless swindles, 3) God-fearing Pennsylvanians had once offered a bounty for Indian scalps. Washington's dignity and Dr. Franklin's ingenuity inspired Lamb's admiration. But he detests the hypocrisy of Demagogue John Hancock and his shyster lawyer Sam Adams, the "moral obliquity" of Boston's pious, greedy merchants...