Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiang regime (like the Greek government, which the U.S. also supported) suffered at one time or another from many of the worst vices known to governments: corruption and disunity, incompetence and indecision. Yet in a world racked by the evil and destruction of first fascist, then Communist aggression, the American job was to work with the world it found and know what world it wanted. In China, it tried and it failed. At no point in the long chronicle of its failure had it displayed a modest fraction of the stamina and decisiveness which had checked Communism in Europe...
...telephone rang in Eleanor Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park. It was Cardinal Spellman on the line. Two weeks before, angry at Mrs. Roosevelt's opposition to federal aid to parochial schools, he had accused her of "discrimination unworthy of an American mother," and announced flatly that no matter what Mrs. Roosevelt had further to say, "I shall not again publicly acknowledge...
...This in no way undermines the 'traditional American principle of separation of Church and State.' We are asking only for what is constitutional...
Next day Stefan quit his job and the union sent its men back to work. Said his brother, bitterly: "I had hoped to show Eugene our American heart and our American way of living. I have been here for 37 years and I never saw anything like this...
...Nudists of the American Sunbathing Association worked out a neat solution to the problem of a Peeping Tom who was eyeing their convention in Colorado's Deer Creek Canyon through a three-foot telescope. They trapped him, escorted him down out of the brush, made him take off his clothes, then invited him to stare all he wanted...