Word: disesteem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...additions; first, such a general education as educated men find necessary for intelligent intercourse with one another; and second, inculcations of a set of virtues, admirable always, out indispensable in a soldier. Men may be inexact or even untruthful in ordinary matters and suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates or the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact or untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his fellow men and with the honor of his government, and it is therefore no matter of pride but rather of stein military necessity that makes West Point require...
...time his second great war is upon him, Blimp is the grand old lobster of the cartoon, angry, hurt and bewildered to find his age and his military experience in disesteem. The crowning blow comes when sharp young men of the new Army jump the gun in training maneuvers and capture him, boiling red and boiling mad, in a Turkish bath, hours before the sharo battle was supposed to begin. Reluctant and heartsick, he begins at last to understand the one thing the movie tries to teach Blimp, or to show him inadequate in: the idea that the code that...