Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women with $5,000,000 worth of scholarships, the federal government has started a revolutionary change in higher education. From the meagre wartime beginning the program can blossom into full national responsibility for learning. It is the first step toward bringing our democratic education out from under its cloak of platitudes and taking it out of the hands of religious sects and businessmen...
...coastal fires were the work of Axis agents, their purpose was twofold: to cloak submarines from the prying eyes of U.S. aircraft on patrol; to drag men from vital war factories to fight the fires. Fire-fighting manpower was at a low ebb. The draft had cut deeply into the ranks of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Soldiers and sailors banded together with hastily recruited citizens to dig trenches, fell trees...
...realist, he is dogmatic in his insistence that ethics are tools, that thought is relative. To a realist any form of internationalism is a cloak for a dominant group. To him a balanced power is fairer than any World Federation which would be simply a disguise for Anglo-American hegemony. One need not be a Utopian, however, to feel that Spykman's world order excludes any finite goal, any emotional appeal, or any basis for action. Even Karl Marx, after all, had to postulate a goal in which his discouraging dialectic no longer worked...
...Statements . . . unworthy of a U.S. Senator. . . . The Senator must know these statements are untrue. . . . False and misleading statements which it takes no courage to make under his cloak of immunity...
...Hitler (in 1920)-"Today brute force can conquer only by assuming a socialist, a revolutionary cloak. Never can Germany win a war if England is fighting actively on the opposing side. Only by ideologically destroying it from within can Germany conquer Europe. By brute force alone-never...