Word: chafed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approach to each other of the two most powerful men in Central Europe today, Hitler and Mussolini. It was notice to Britain, France and the League of Nations that Italy's conquest of Ethiopia must receive official diplomatic recognition; that the "war guilt" under which Germans and Italians chafe must be erased in tribute to their "honor"; and that other wishes of these dictators must be granted-or else...
...Republic, people who talk slowly, prognathous people, nervous people, gruff men. tobacco chewers, Bolshevists, dreamers, but they tend to dislike teetotalers, clergymen, cautious people. Much less neurotic than unhappy wives, they drive wholeheartedly to their own ends, seldom ask or accept advice. They like chess and inventors. They chafe at regimentation, avoid picnics and excursions but go to dances and formal parties, can have fun doing and seeing things alone. "[The divorced woman's] personality," the investigators conclude, "lacks the element of sweet femininity but commands respect for its rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance...
...said it "falls on the thrifty and efficient and on the shiftless equally" it is difficult to fix equitable rates on different classes of taxpayers; it falls on consumption and thereby on necessities; it does not distinguish between extractive and mobile industries (West Virginia coal mining companies particularly chafe under...