Word: challengee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In conclusion, said the G.O.P.: "Guided by these principles, with continuing faith in Almighty God, united in the spirit of brotherhood and using the skills, resources and blessings of liberty with which we are endowed, we the American people will courageously advance to meet the challenge of the future."
As every commencement speaker knows, the sure-fire approach is to bewail the failure of your own generation, and then in ringing tones challenge the next one to do better. Few speakers have more tellingly indicted the old or more specifically counseled the new than Atomic Energy Boss David Lilienthal...
He was just the man with whom Tammany could challenge waspish, ebullient little Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1941. In a sense it was a personal feud. The Little Flower had heckled Democratic
The Meaning of Wind. Back in Ottawa last week from his first inspection at Churchill, Defense Minister Brooke Claxton told how the 850 military men (500 Canadian, 350 U.S.) were meeting the challenge of cold.
Douglas MacArthur and all the apparatus of SCAP could do very little about this larger challenge. It was becoming much clearer to Americans that the recovery and security of one depended upon the recovery of many. That would require just as much understanding and perseverance-and probably help-in Asia...