Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results that they have produced ... to the citizens of Canada for the way they have responded to war loans, Red Cross drives and the many other demands made upon their loyalties and emotions. . . . [Many] have given vast sums of money to back up in a mute way . . . the war effort. ... I am glad that as a soldier I can come home and find my fellow citizens doing a first-class job on their front. It will be something to tell my comrades overseas...
Change of Spirit? The Raj made one request of Gandhi: to keep political silence. The old man's intimates prayed that he would regain strength for one more grand effort. They spoke hopefully of a meeting between him and the Viceroy, a meeting that might wipe the slate clean, win at long last the cooperation of India's nationalists in the Empire's war. Said Devadas Gandhi's Hindusthan Times: "... Though the communique says the decision was taken on purely medical grounds, we permit ourselves the hope that this marks a change of spirit which...
...have had brought to my attention a widespread public opinion that it is detrimental to our war effort to have an officer in high position on active service at the front considered for nomination for the office of President...
...Army has announced that it needs 48,000 more men for overseas service. The Government already has the power to change the regulations and send all men in uniform overseas, but has not done so, out of deference to bitterly anti-conscriptionist Quebec. Many Canadians suspected that a last effort was being made to avoid compulsion for zombies...
...capitalism is the world's best economic system and is enormously proud of being a successful U.S. businessman. He writes that the "Alger pattern ... is unmistakably" apparent in his own life. His penniless, work-filled boyhood taught him that competition is the soul of every game, that competitive effort involves an immense cooperative effort, that communities and individuals boom together. "I plead guilty of being a Kiwanian," he declares, "sharing all the sins of extrovert good fellowship, self-improvement and community spirit which the so-called intellectuals love to lampoon. ... I see no hypocrisy in concern for the general...