Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were certain that Russia, although it had the larger ground force, would be militarily much weaker than an armed U.S. The Russians have not got the atomic bomb. The Russian economic machine has made no recent important strides on the very long way it would have to go to approach equality with the U.S. Nevertheless, Russia s defensive capacity is impressive. If attacked, Russia would defend itself stubbornly...
University students must provide an answer to the Cassandras, the President asserted, by supplying intellectual and moral courage. "One can hardly maintain that we are likely to solve our problems if we approach them in a spirit of abject fear...
...There is such a thing as being too unwilling to commit oneself to a course of action. But it is my own conviction that for every man in a position of responsibility today who sins because of his over-judicious approach, there are nine who are neither helping themselves nor the nation by accepting slogans as realities and jumping at conclusions...
...deep concern for the welfare of humanity, a desire to participate in a struggle for a better world can be coupled with a skeptical approach to many matters. Easy solutions for hard problem must be tested in the light of history and an accurate knowledge of current situations...
...people who took Associate Professor Guerard's Comparative Literature 262 last year have recommended it to me. You read short novels--dozens of them--by Conrad, Dostoevsky, James, and so on; Guerard presents a Freudian interpretation of the books themselves and how they were written. Whether you like the approach or not, the reading is supposed to be tops...