Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration to trim its demand into acceptable form, met his measured argument with measured reply. "If it is properly handled, it can be the greatest economy measure which this country has ever adopted," said Dulles. "Let us not lose our perspective," Vandenberg urged. "The objective is . . . defense for the common cause, this common cause, among other things, being the defense of the United States." Old Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explained: "The North Atlantic Treaty and the military-assistance program are designed to combine might with right...
Russia stood to gain from her atom bomb if it scared Europe's people into clamoring for appeasement of Communism, but the West itself stood to gain more: a new clarity of common purpose. The atom bomb in Russian hands was something so ominously specific that it was almost certain to impel a brand of Western unity which otherwise might be years in the forging. Plain common peril might be translated into plain common courage. Moscow's atom-smashing made obsolete no major part of a political strategy that embraced the Atlantic pact, U.S. military aid to Europe...
...have a feeling in common that our work will be written down in the history of mankind. It will say: the Chinese, forming one-quarter of humanity, have risen . . . We announce the establishment of the People's Republic of China . . . We must unite with all countries and peoples loving peace and freedom, first of all the Soviet Union . . . Let the reactionaries at home & abroad tremble...
That was one expressive word in U.S. teen-age use last week to convey a common feeling about the reopening of school. Nothing, teen-agers thought, could be more "frip" than getting down to work in the first weeks of fall...
...this striving, charity must come first! The love of a common Lord must expand into a strong love for the brethren of other Christian bodies. We are responsible one for another...