Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American people onto the road from which it strayed after the first world war. This does not mean that we must overload them with detailed plans for a reconstructed League of Nations, a federation of the Danube Valley, a partitioned Germany, or any such specific and controversial blueprint. Let the wise men squabble over that...
Until war hits him, Joe is just another untested American. Selected by his employers to install the new Army bombsight in their aircraft, he is snatched by enemy agents who want a blueprint of the sight. He is tortured, escapes, and his abductors are finally captured...
Editorially it will favor no particular blueprint of the future, but will attempt to cultivate every type opinion that is aimed at achieving the principles of liberty and equality. It will devote itself in the main to an analysis of the obstacles to the sort of world we want, with the idea of formulating the general principles of reason into a practical policy...
...like many another sincere New Dealer, Rex Tugwell is no impartial statesman. He loves the people to beat hell, and he has a fairly simple blueprint of hell. As Governor of Puerto Rico, greyheaded Rex Tugwell went grayer for the Popular Democratic Party of his friend Muñoz Marin...
...take further chances. Some things made Treasury's hair curl: movies of secret tests of new, experimental U.S. tanks at Aberdeen, Md. were developed by three German aliens employed in the Agfa Ansco plant; Ozalid division employes, many of them German-born, thoroughly inspected defense plants before installing blueprint processes, frequently went back to service the equipment. If no accidents or sabotage had occurred, it was not from lack of opportunity. Nor were last week's firings likely to be the last...