Word: bemoaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight the kind of war Hitler had loosed on the world, did not have enough trained men to build the plants that could create them. In a fury of frustration they jumped on each other, developed morbid fears of invisible enemies, chased ghosts and phantoms, looked backward to bemoan old mistakes and ancient blunders. Greater sign of weakness was that-though no longer was a crisis doubted-no great national program came into being that could give each man his place in a giant effort, give a creative release to pent-up emotions...