Word: avowing
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...domestic critics from the beginning. Adlai Stevenson recognized the need for intelligence but asked: "Is it possible that we. the United States . . . could do the very thing we dread: carelessly, accidentally trigger the holocaust?" Columnist Walter Lippmann kept up a running battle from the legal flank: "To avow that we intend to violate Soviet sovereignty is to put everybody on the spot . . . The avowal is an open invitation to the Soviet government to take the case to the United Nations, where our best friends will be grievously embarrassed...
...which assumed that public service was a duty. Grandfather Lodge was the scholar in politics, arrogant, cultivated and intelligent. Henry Adams, a lifelong, sometimes malicious friend of Grandfather Lodge, once wrote of him: "He betrayed the consciousness that he and his people had a past, if they dared but avow it, and might have a future, if they could but divine...
...have] witnessed the sufferings of men in a world trapped by fear, famine and madness called Communism ... I avow that unless the whole American people, without further ostrichlike actions and pretenses, unite to stop the Communist floodings of our own land, our sons, for the third and last time, shall be summoned ... to bear arms against those who would desecrate and destroy them. Yea, it is full time that a strong and vigilant America unite in prayer and protest...
That crushing power did avow...
...Therefore, it is only honest and realistic that we should jointly acknowledge and avow this alliance, make it permanent, definite as to terms and patent to the world. It will be the most tremendous step toward permanent peace that the mind of man can conceive...