Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claire Chennault-en route to the U.S. (with his Chinese bride of eleven weeks) -on aid to China: "I am going to urge military aid to China at once, and in sufficient volume to stop the Communists. I don't care how much it takes. ... It should be enough to stop the Communists...
Possibly. But chiefly to help him think about and care about his world. People living today in the U.S. and other parts of the free world are engaged in a great historical experiment; they are faced with the challenge of establishing and extending the first democratic civilization. For them, news has a meaning that it did not have for plain people in the days of Pericles or Pitt. The decisions of the 20th Century rest with the people. To act, they have to know and to care...
TIME is not dispassionate about news. It cares about what's going on in the world, and it hopes that its readers care. TIME, seeking a truthful summation of the news, knows well that it can be wrong. But the possibility of error is no excuse for failing to try to communicate the sense of the news. The people will act (or fail to act) on whatever information they have. They are not allowed to wait until "all the facts" are in, and computed by machines not yet invented...
...Theologian. The intricate architecture of his thought explains why even Roman Catholic theologians respect Dr. Niebuhr. Both Catholics and Protestants may disagree with this or that aspect of his doctrine, or bypass or reject it as a whole. Few care to challenge...
...there will emerge vast numbers of walking people, consisting of women, children and the aged. Thousands of them walking, but a great number, even though they walk, will not live. During the immediately succeeding hours, and the dark days which follow, who will bear the burden of the professional care of the survivors?" He answered his own .question: civilian doctors. The Army doctors will be too busy...