Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balding, genial Frank Walker, chair man of the Democratic National Commit tee, last week returned to Washington from a month's political tour of the U.S., stuck his tongue in his well-rounded pink cheek...
There was nothing unbelievable about this story to the Japanese, who recognize facts as relative and variable shadows of certain innate truths incomprehensible to all Westerners. When an unpleasant fact does embarrass the Japanese, they either ignore it or else commit harakiri...
...there is no need to give way to anxiety, certainly no ground whatever to despair. No one is going to commit this nation to a Machiavellian philosophy just because in a splendid achievement there has been some incidental moral confusion. . . . For the greater action is so sound, and so wholesome at its core that it will transcend the rest, and it will generate a moral energy which will sweep away, like a clean wind, the dusty leaves of sophistry...
...paralysis, stiff joints, which will genuinely disqualify him as a fighter (hysteria rarely occurs in newly wounded men-presumably because real wounds eliminate them from battle). Another common type of war breakdown is the hallucinatory reliving of terrifying scenes. A psychopath may quit fighting, give way to panic, or commit suicide. Still other men will brood over every step of a battle, with remorse for their own inadequacy, or for having participated in killing...
...research, he can foretell the weather through statistical periodicity-a theory with which meteorologists disagree. His last years, between 80 and 100, he intends to spend facing a large wall on which he will have drawn a chart of his weather predictions. When his forecasts go wrong, he will commit suicide...