Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insisted from the first on knowing everything about her chances, and as she listened she seemed completely undisturbed. In her long life, Martha Ellen Truman had learned to accept trouble. She could remember the guerrilla fighting which raged on the Kansas-Missouri border during the Civil War, and the day when Federal irregulars killed her family's stock and burned haystacks and barns. She had lived by the plain philosophy which she had passed on to her sons-do your best, be loyal to your friends, never forget your enemies. She saw no reason for "a lot of fuss...
Dependent peoples everywhere in the world were stirring, seeking self-government. Those under U.S. rule were no exception. Last week, Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug fanned libertarian fires across the Pacific. For Guam, Samoa and the former Japanese mandates he urged civil administration (under his own department) instead of Navy rule, as a first step toward self-government...
...Steamers go out of their way to dodge a hurricane, but in normal weather they stick to a "great-circle course"-the shortest path between two points on the earth's curving surface. But ocean-flying airplanes made the winds important again. Last week the PICAO (Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization), which provides planes with valuable weather information, was planning ways to standardize its service internationally. The idea is to help pilots of all countries and languages make the winds work in their favor...
...Hope. Not "entertainment," but a fine, grim film about the Spanish Civil War, made in 1938 by Novelist Andre Malraux (TIME...
...rigidity of paralysis, but the dynamic of steady reconstruction. On this healthful positivism, on the ability of young Greeks, Poles, Austrians and Chinese to break the hunger hold that constricts reconstruction, lies the peace of Europe. In political terms, this mental health provides the only fertile ground where civil-rights democracy may settle its roots. In terms of the psychology of giving and accepting, the food is aimed at the citadel of cynicism, the hungry student. Far from displays of cynicism, European undergraduates have seized on American food as the pathway to a greater idealism built around the new opportunity...