Word: bunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welcome to say the least. It is reassuring that an Army fighting for democracy should try itself to understand the meaning of the word. This couldn't be said for our Army of 1917. Then, as in the twenties, the Army High Commond preached that democracy was the bunk. It put out a pamphlet on civics in which it referred to democracy as communistic, anarchic, a government of the mob. Many Army officers have since repented for this unpatriotic expression of personal opinion, and the Army in general has tried to reform its previously undemocratic stand as evidenced...
...debunking, too skeptical," one senses that the Dean's attitude arises from a fundamental belief not in democracy but in the status quo. The reason America's colleges must overdo their task is that their raw product is too unintellectual, too uncritical, too gullible, and too full of bunk. The high schools and to a lesser extent the prep schools provide merely a superficial pot-pourri of facts and so send to college men and women lacking sufficient intellectual maturity to be given the finishing touches of a liberal education in a few months. Because the colleges must teach...
...task force is formed, and what it is expected to do; how the Army Commander spends his day; how your chow gets to you (or maybe why it doesn't sometimes); how German units work; the way you distinguish between truth, propaganda and pure, unadulterated BUNK...
...bunk, no journalese, no sentimentality. Of the embattled English he remarked: "Often they are insular, but their determination must be recorded." When Dorothy Thompson was telling the British that the poets of the world were on their side, he spoke for the sweating people who doubted the poets' effectiveness. At a time when the official British were still egg-walking on the subject of the U.S., he reported the truth in plain words: "They want us in this...
...Hohman: "I think that's just plain "bunk. Any woman who can afford $15 a week for a nurse will gladly turn over her kids to one." (Boos, hisses...