Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military expediency." But the Army officially accepted "no doctrine of racial superiority or inferiority." Said an Army directive to officers": "All people seem to be endowed . . . with whatever it takes to fight a good war, if they want to and have learned how." The Army admitted that it must depend in the end on individual commanding officers. On this point Dean Hastie said angrily: "If the Army says it has difficulty in making its orders stick, then I say: 1) it's a hell of a poor army which can't enforce its own orders; 2) how many...
...years on the stage, including a spell as a singer in George White's Scandals. By 1928 Thomas Dewey had made two decisions. Forced to sing at an important concert when he had a sore throat, he decided once & for all that he could not let his future depend on such a fragile thing as his vocal chords. And he married Frances Hutt, who immediately retired from the stage, in time became the mother of Thomas Edmund Jr. (now 11) and John Martin Dewey...
...Whether the press survives as a vital instrument of democracy will depend upon the wisdom and temper of its owners. Theirs it is to decide whether they shall . . . fight the people's battles . . . or fight the people for the interests; whether they shall administer a trusteeship or exploit a privilege...
...That brings up another thought as to the worth or unworth [of polls]. Most Congressmen are poignantly sensitive to the views of their constituents. Their elections depend on maintaining their popularity. ... It would be idle to assume that they are not moved by them...
...merchant seamen, whose casualty rate has been five times that of the armed forces, have had to depend for medical care on the captain (or first mate) and his medicine kit. Last week the Maritime Service announced that the purser* will henceforth be the "ship's doctor...