Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could stand it no longer. The day after he put a temporary gag on Henry Wallace, he called his Secretary of State on the transatlantic phone. The connection was bad. So he walked to the teletype in the White House communications room. In his mind's eye, no doubt, was the pale, birdlike face of Jimmy Byrnes bent over the teletype in the Paris Embassy. Across 3,800 miles the machines and the men began to talk...
There could no longer be any doubt last week-the Soviet Government was again engaged in a nationwide purge, less publicized, and as yet less bloody, than the Great Purge of the '30s, but raking Soviet life from top to bottom. Pravda claimed for the move "political significance of the first importance." The long, grim decree, announcing the purge, bore an ominous joint signature: Premier Joseph Stalin (for the Soviet Government) and Secretary Andrei A. Zhdanov (for the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party...
...found out enough to doubt that the department-store system would work on a national scale.* For one thing, personnel costs might leave the Government little net return (in New Orleans the 230 clerks were unpaid volunteers). And the elimination of red tape made it too easy for nonveterans to get surpluses by borrowing a set of discharge papers...
...equivalents of soma and hypnopaedia [the happy-making drugs in Brave New World] and [a] scientific caste system are probably not more than three or four generations away. Nor does the sexual promiscuity of Brave New World seem so very distant. In a few years, no doubt, marriage licenses will be sold like dog licenses, good for a period of twelve months. . . . Dictator[s] will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile [people] to the servitude which is their...
With his group meeting with Edric Weld's Constitutional Council committee now set for Monday, Considine's statement threw doubt on the chances of the joint parley for success...