Word: delusional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ten-Year Plan. Romains is one of the most prolific of living writers. When he started writing Men of Good Will, he had already turned out many volumes-Death of a Nobody, which won sincere critical praise, popular plays on the level of Broadway thrillers, poems, esoteric novels, mildly erotic...
On Your Knees! Gravely the minister summoned his listeners to repentance. Freedom from want and fear is "cruel delusion." What mankind needs is penitence. Cried he: "After a year and ten months of the deadliest war this country has ever fought, we in the United States still have had no...
Back to 1600. The shadows of the Mexican misadventure and the menacing shadow of Prussia were meeting over France. Bazaine's home-coming took place in that gloom. He was almost unnoticed. Nevertheless, he had absorbed certain lessons that were to become a vital part of French military thought...
Roundup, U.S. soldiers' newspaper in Delhi, India, spoke earthy words against homesickness: "All you jerks want to return to the States because of some woman. This type of thinking, gents, is a snare and a delusion. . . . Now she's probably driving a six-by-six truck. When you...
Germans waiting at home got no cheer. Their radios and newspapers told them to be "under no delusion about the seriousness of the fighting." A German radio propagandist moaned about the Red Army's "enormous mass of tanks" and admitted that the German army's situation at Stalingrad...