Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Eisenhower, for the West can defend itself by "unity and faith." "Unity is no simple precept. It is a complex and exacting principle ... It demands-on all fronts and in all senses-the sternest watch against divisive propaganda ... It demands a true cleansing from our hearts of the faintest stains of racial or religious prejudice. There is no such thing as just a little bigotry, just a little hate . . ." Abroad, unity demands that the U.S. "triumph over the temptations of economic nationalism and welcome full equitable trade with our allies. Have we the patience to check our tempers when...
...like Stevenson and Wyatt, a Washington operator (a Washington name for smart young lawyers in Government bureaus). Stevenson held several press conferences, some of them on a not-for-attribution basis, to permit reporters to become acquainted with his current views. Some of them: he hadn't the "faintest idea" whether or not he would drop Dean Acheson as Secretary of State; he foresaw the day when East-West power will come into some kind of balance and it may become possible to negotiate with the Kremlin; and he bespoke his determination to put his "own stamp...
Green, who has owned United stock since 1946 and now holds, with his family, 66,900 shares, started his attack by charging that President Walter G. Baumhogger and his associates "haven't the faintest idea how to run the business profitably." The management defended itself by relating how it had tenderly nursed the company from threatened bankruptcy 13 years ago, when its stock was "under water" (i.e., had a book value of minus $1,000,000), to 1950 sales of $74 million and a book value for the stock of $12,000,000. But, in letters to stockholders, Green...
...Electrons," he points out, "can supply the brains for the control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...
...great pictures of our day is Picasso's Guernica mural, just as he himself is one of the greatest artists of our time . . . But the fresh symbols that come forth from this masterly hand reveal the scars and shocks of our sad era, with not even the faintest hints of a new integration ... At times the emotion is so lacerating that the next step beyond would be either insanity or suicide, violence and nihilism; the death of the human personality. This is the message that modern art brings to us at its purest...