Word: clings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to Lippmann, de Tocqueville concluded that the British aristocracy survived because its members "accepted heavy burdens in order that they might be allowed to continue to govern," while the French aristocracy perished because they preferred to cling "to their privileges and immunities to console themselves for having lost to the king the power to govern." U.S. business can perish or survive according to how it chooses between the same essential alternatives today. But the great danger is that U.S. businessmen will unwittingly suffer the fate of the nobility of France - unless they stop "brooding upon their grievances and their...
...Land: Killing or Being Killed. Land fighting on Guadalcanal is unlike any other fighting in this war. The terrain around the flat beachhead is unique. It consists of high, steep ridges covered with chest-high grass, alternating with valleys choked with jungle. The Japanese cling, animallike, to the jungle. The Marines prefer the ridges, from which their weapons, particularly artillery, can dominate the valleys. But they go down into the tangle to hunt out their prey...
...spot in the wide world has taken such sustained and savage bombing. To defend it the British have paid dearly. But still they cling. If the world wonders, the British have a twofold answer...
...extremely rare Third Method, a kind of fourth dimension among cuckoo problems, that is still controversial. The Third Method is used when a cuckoo encounters a nest with a very small or tortuous entrance. Unable to squat or cling, the cuckoo flutters to the ground, lays an egg, is thought by some to swallow it, then poke her long bill and neck into the nest opening, and regurgitate...
Coming at a time of general dissatisfaction with the progress of the war, the Post is cleverly attempting to create a new band wagon on which our escapist groups can jump. These foreboding prophets say that "there is one rock or truth to which the common man may cling--economic freedom." But the common man has already given evidence that he is willing for the government to assume as much power as it needs to win the war. He has also shown that he expects the government after the war to prevent a return of the runaway competition which...