Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face once more the distinction between relative justice and tyranny. Our tyrannical opponent is as unscrupulous as tyrannies always are. . . . Since this new tyranny is not only unscrupulous but possesses the guile to exploit our moral and political weaknesses, it must be the business of a genuine liberalism not to relax our outer defenses but to make our political and economic life more worthy of our faith and therefore more impregnable. War with Russia is neither imminent nor inevitable if we have a creative policy. Let us, therefore, avoid hysteria even while we abjure sentimental illusions...
...know of none. . . . America seeks no territory and seeks no reparations. . . . The U.S. must also repudiate [Molotov's] suggestion . . . that the economic clauses proposed by the U.S. and based upon the principle of equality and most-favored-nation treatment are part of an effort to exploit the ex-enemy countries for the selfish advantage...
...busy bailing his Nationalist-minded students and faculty members out of Jap occupation headquarters and stalling Japs who wanted to hoist the puppet flag over Yenching. After the start of U.S.-Jap hostilities, when Stuart himself was interned in a house in Peiping, the Japs, who had hoped to exploit his close personal friendship with Chiang, refused to let him be repatriated to the U.S. He spent the war writing a commentary on the New Testament and playing anagrams with other prisoners...
Roman Catholicism, Morrison says, does not merely threaten Protestantism-it is a threat to America itself: [It] is a self-enclosed system of power, resting upon the broad base of the submission of its people, whose submission it is able to exploit for the gaining of yet more power in the political and cultural life of the secular community. . . . Its triumph in America would radically transform our culture and change the character of our democratic institutions...
This week, mourning its publisher, the Daily News for once did not speak with tongue in cheek. Its solemn self-appraisal: ''The most extraordinary exploit in 20th-century journalism...