Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each American had now to develop a spirit comparable to his achievements, to recreate the spirit that had made his achievements possible. To preserve and strengthen his precarious new position in the world, he had to understand what had brought him to that position, what were the spiritual springs that made him an American. Whether he knew it or not, or liked his new role, each dweller in the U.S. had become a leading citizen of the world and one on whose conduct the hopes of the world rested...
...years on the Times let Davis develop his tastes. He covered the Ford peace ship, the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, the Harding arms conference, the famed Zev-Papyrus match race, wrote everything from editorials to whimsy. By 1924, when his third novel was published, he was ready to try free-lancing as a steady thing. He wrote adventure and boy-meets-girl stories for the slick-paper magazines, essays on literature, politics and realpolitik for Harper's and Saturday Review of Literature...
Suicidal morbidity, distraction through fatigue, uncontrollable confusion or duodenal ulcers are effects most likely to develop during pre-battle training. Extreme neuroses-blindness, insanity, paralysis-usually occur only in combat...
Sergeant-Editor McCarthy is consciously seeking to develop confidence in and respect for his Army Weekly "by the men . . . for the men in the service," in anticipation of another problem yet to be met. When victory is own, McCarthy foresees a morale problem among the men wishing to get home. He hopes to make Yank just as useful then, after the war is over, as it is while his staff and reader are helping win it. Meanwhile, he only admits, "None of us can tell just what kind of a job we're doing till it's all over...
Sergeant-Editor McCarthy is consciously seeking to develop confidence in and respect for his Army weekly "by the men . . . for the men in the service," in anticipation of another problem yet to be met. When victory is won, McCarthy foresees a morale problem among the men wishing to get home. He hopes to make Yank just as useful then, after the war is over, as it is while his staff and reader are helping win it. Meanwhile he only admits. "None of us can tell just what kind of a job we're doing till it's all over...