Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result was that Sir Stafford Cripps . . . appointed a new managing director [Steelman George Ernest Marden] with full powers, whom he personally introduced to the Joint Production Committee, and that he has promised to see the workers again two months hence if they still think that the organization of the factory is unsound...
...Greatest Gift. Psychiatrists say that soldiers should be taught that fear is a normal reaction. On this subject, World War I Veteran Ernest Hemingway makes a layman's observation in Men at War: "Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present minute with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire...
Alaska's Governor Ernest H. Gruening started the tempest. Choking with indignation, he had appeared before the Committee to protest against a bill to authorize mail censorship between the U.S. and territories. For a year, he sputtered, censors' had been prying into mail to Alaska. Private letters were passed around for the censors' amusement. Personal items were scissored, put on mimeographed sheets, circulated to British and U.S. officials...
Bellowed Minister of Health Ernest Brown: "There are moral and ethical and spiritual issues behind this question. . . . I would agree with the Victorians who hold the view that personal purity is the only complete prophylactic...
...Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1939), University of California physicist, pioneer in atom smashing, father of the cyclotron...