Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mentioned the widows and children of Centralia's dead, his voice sank to a whisper. He cried: "If we must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine . . . then before God I assert that those who consume coal owe them and their families protection. ... I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it. . . ." Roaring, whispering or hammering the table, he always swiveled back to his target-Krug...
...They Don't Give Us a Lead." It is often said that Britons have never cared much about their Empire, and do not now. They do care, and they simply don't believe it when they read that they are losing the Empire. They don't mean the technical empire of India, Burma, the Colonies. By "empire" they mean South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada-the Commonwealth. That is the "empire" that matters to them, and a good many of them see Britain's future in it. Some of them even think they can somehow...
...mines covering 4,000 square miles, a total of 1,500,000 slave workers in the pits. The region is subArctic. The ground is so hard frozen that those who die cannot be buried, but are left lying on the tundra, where the wolves and other wild animals take care of them...
...such festive days as Easter, José makes early and serious preparation, selecting his assistants with care. He needs 60 strong men, sober, to handle the bells in both towers. When all are in place, he takes his position on the cathedral roof midway between the towers, where he can look through a skylight at the cathedral altar...
Except for Commencements, periodic class reunions, and Yale games, a Harvard alumnus has little chance to come into much contact with his University. If he should ever care to come back and look up old friends and classmates, visit sons or brothers, or just drop in on old surroundings, any kind of common meeting place in Cambridge is nonexistent if he lacks Club affiliations. Were he a Yaleman, he could get together in an old colonial mansion serving as a "Yale Graduates' Club," but here, unfortunately, the old grad is left more or less to his own ingenuity and that...