Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government and oldtime religion." He sent a fiery campaign booklet to all farmers: Do You Want Your Child to Go to School With Negroes? But his attempt to ride back to office on the race issue was a rank failure. Last week's election simply proved a political axiom laid down by Abraham Lincoln...
...Jawaharlal Nehru explained that nonviolence envisaged more than industrial strikes-it would be a general strike, peaceful rebellion. Nehru's thesis was simple: only Indians could organize India for war, because anybody could do anything better than the Government of India today-that is a fundamental axiom...
...talk of "steam-roller tactics"; well, we're up against steam-roller tactics, and if the axiom of fight fire with fire still holds good, then we'd better praise them instead of condemning them. The answer to the whole question is sacrifice; no, not sacrifice with tears of sorrow rolling down one's cheeks, but sacrifice with a touch of pride and a thankfulness for the opportunity...
Until last week the ancient axiom that China is too big to be conquered had never been admitted by Japan. Last week the world was astounded to hear Japan admit it. With perhaps the greatest loss of face in modern Japanese history, the Japan Times and Advertiser, English-language mouthpiece of the Japanese Foreign Office, permitted itself to say that "ideas of overcoming this mastodon of nations must have little more appeal even to the most sanguine of soldierly minds...
...rank of U. S. writers is a large and loyal cult whose members are bound together by a common axiom of composition that they had to memorize in college: "Individualize by specific detail." They were all students of Yale's famed Professor John Milton ("Johnny") Berdan. Last week Johnny Berdan's former students, now heavily concentrated in Hollywood and Manhattan, as one man rattled their teacups (a Berdan way of saying they were unnerved). They had just learned that Johnny, after 38 years, was retiring from Yale...