Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before rushing in for the kill. He is deeply, sincerely, authentically American: he always seems to be threatening to clinch a literary judgment in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress. The literary situation which Critic DeVoto found in the East was calculated to exacerbate his deepest instincts, habits of thought and affection. With a loud roar of rage, the felicity of phrasing and invaluable candor of a common scold, he immediately started to set things to rights...
...been chosen for the handing over of these conditions, then it was done in order, once and for all, through this act of just retribution, to eradicate the memory which was not a glorious page of French history and was felt by the German people to be the deepest shame of all times. France has been beaten in a series of bloody battles, after heroic resistance, and has collapsed...
...think it means ... I represent a trend, or am ahead of a trend." Groping to define that trend last week, commentators called it a sign of impatience with politicians, an end to popular suspicion of businessmen as such, a recognition of the need for industrial leadership in a crisis. Deepest was the realization that the Republican convention would meet in the hour of Hitler's greatest triumph and democracy's greatest defeat. Wrote Columnist Ray Clapper: "Democracy has been a failure in Europe. It has been blind, slow, inefficient, unable to understand its interests and to protect them...
...atrophied that they did not recover full life until 1922. But he kept a virtually blind knowledge that a past had existed in which that high form of consciousness was possible; that a future must ultimately emerge in which it might live again; that during war "one's deepest obligation seemed to be to give up nothing of what mankind had previously gained and acknowledged after honest search...
...many Americans this proposal will sound like a man talking in a dream. They will say, "It is insane the President will never do it. It means changing the deepest convictions of 130,000,000 people." It is not a dream. Actually, the so-called "deepest convictions" of America are the insanity, the nightmare that is drawing us down into the quicksand of hopelessness, desperation, and war. A clear voice speaking with the strong tone of leadership will wake the people from their delirium. Only a daring and challenging new approach to the problem can clear...