Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mills in Lancashire and told the assembled workers: "Homes, health, education and social security-these are your birthright." That was quite a different list from the one John Locke had drawn up 260 years ago when he summarized man's inalienable rights as life, liberty and property. For better or worse, most Britons today are more wedded to Bevan's list than to Locke's. "Why is it," exclaimed a tall, exasperated Conservative M.P. over a substantial lunch last week, "that whenever I go to speak, the people seem to be interested in nothing but their social...
...schoolboys wrote in to cry "hear, hear!") A simpler English comprehensible to foreigners, he went on, would be of inestimable value to international relations. Tory M.P. Christopher Hollis made a shrewd comment on this motion. Said Hollis: "I do not think we should like Mr. Molotov any better if we understood everything he said...
Emperor Hirohito thought that his country's defeat, all in all, had not been such a bad thing. He assured newsmen that the war's results had led to better understanding between Japan...
Marcks spends his mornings sculpting in gypsum, which he likes better than clay because "it is so ugly-its brutal white color shows up the weaknesses." In the afternoons he goes home to the two-room apartment he shares with his wife, and rests. In the evenings he does playfully bizarre woodcuts which sell very well, help to finance the casting of more & more of his hard-to-sell gypsum figures in bronze...
...Communism can be warded off only by a 'better justice' on the part of the Western world, not by the all too cheap denials in which the fear of the West is now expressing itself. Nor can I confess allegiance to ... [the] 'Christian West'; rather I think that the locus of Christianity is to be sought above today's conflict between East and West...