Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real foreign policy himself; he has not attempted to think his way through the problem of the Polish frontiers; the problem of Finland, of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; he has no profound ideas about the Balkans or Eastern Europe or the Near East or China. In general he seems content to take whatever proposals the White House and the State Department send down, amend them to suit the Senate's temper that week, and pass them...
...Having asked the Congress for a loaf of bread to take care of this war," he went on, he might have been content with "this small piece of crust" if it had not contained "so many extraneous and inedible materials...
...when Bernie Wefers first ran the ioo-yard dash in 9.4 seconds. Six more times he equaled the present world record, a generation before Frank Wykoff (1930) and Jesse Owens (1935). Watches were checked and verified. But the A.A.U. still called it im possible. Wefers had to be content with an official...
Hollywood, in its treatment of "our gallant Russian ally" as usual, comes with too little, too late. Evidently still punchy from the conviction that they are flying in the face of all convention by writing about Russia at all, they are content to abandon as irrelevant all considerations of artistic merit. They are introducing Russia to the American people; that's enough to justify "Mission to Moscow" and "The North Star." That Russia is no longer taboo in the drawing rooms, and that the more conservative journals discuss thte Red Army quite freely, seems to have escaped them...
...bawling offspring, and with special attention to one dear three-year-old, name of Ralphy, who rode backwards in the seat ahead, chin hung over the back, drippin' orange juice, and with the most unexplainable silly grin on his face for a solid 600 miles, I will be content to go on running my chances at the Touraine with the multitude...