Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realistic facing of the facts as they now exist. To the people of the Rocky Mountain west, Democracy means after all mainly the preservation of our own personal freedom and our homes. We cannot get along without the rest of the world and we know it, but we fail to see that we cannot try to adapt ourselves to a changing world and still keep our own faith in those particulars which are important. We resent the term "Isolationist" as typical of the "weasel words" used by crooked politicians, for we are trying to be "Realists" as opposed to those...
...down from the galleries. Said Wendell Willkie, shaking his big head: "Forty-eight days, and only forty-eight days ago, I started out to preach to the American people the doctrine of unity, the doctrine of the destiny of America. . . . The cause is great. We must win. We cannot fail if we stand together in one united fight." Added Mr. Willkie of Elwood, Ind.: "Now I'm going to sleep for a week...
...strengthening of our democratic system and for powerful de fense against the bloodthirsty brutalitarians. . . . Equally important and equally indispensable is an immediate program for the economic rehabilitation of our twelve million unemployed whose morale is shattered and whose allegiance to democracy is tenuous because the hungry and the hopeless fail to see what they are called upon to defend. . . . We rabbis must do more than echo the despair and perplexities of our people. We must bring to them a message of hope, rekindle their faith, inspire them with fortitude and courage...
...fail, the whole world, including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister and perhaps more prolonged by the lights of a perverted science...
Hoary Indian Poet & Mystic Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 79, cabled President Roosevelt his hope that the U. S., as "the last refuge of spiritual man," would "not fail in her mission to stand against the universal disaster that appears so imminent...