Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even in the earliest days of the Republic," he said, "the United States wielded a moral force in excess of its military power." Now Candidate Dewey called a roll of European problems where the U.S. does not seem to be wielding a great moral force...
...book will stagger most readers. It is not only bulky but sexy, and both to excess. A 971-page exploitation of the bawdiest phases of the bawdy Restoration, it weighs two pounds even. And every ounce sizzles-with seductions, abortions, childbirths, miscarriages, bedroom raptures. Its characters wallow in pox, perversion, impotence, pregnancy. Historical events like the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London are swept away in its undertow...
Your report about my speech in the Musicians Congress in Los Angeles (TIME, Sept. 25) was right; but the chairman, Mr. Lawrence Morton, exaggerates his generosity when he states that only by "an excess of tolerance and democracy . . . we allowed Mr. Ludwig to speak at all." The Secretary of the Congress, Professor Rubsamen, whom I did not know, asked me urgently to replace in the last moment another orator at that Congress, at which I had nothing at all to do. After having accepted, I received a letter full of thanks for my willingness to help...
...Remove the excess-profits tax as "soon as the threat of inflation" vanishes...
...dictators [Mussolini, Kemal Ataturk, Joseph Stalin]. . . . I have found that each was a great music lover. . . ." He summed up by declaring that music, like religion, is a force that can be used by friend or foe alike. Commented the chairman of the Congress, Lawrence Morton: "It was in an excess of tolerance and democracy . . . that we allowed Mr. Ludwig to speak...