Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student who is assailed on every side by unccasing if well-meant admonitions about his "duty," his "opportunity to serve," and so forth, the deside to escape will become well-nigh overwhelming. A "tonight be merry for tomorrow we die" spirit, never wholly absent in the college community, will feed on just such a desire, until it rises to fever pitch...
...State Department bluntly informed the Nazis: the U. S. "expects that the vessel will not suffer molestation by ... the German armed forces." The story of a hungry Europe behind the British blockade was clouded with contradictions. Authoritative reports boiled down to this: there was probably food enough to feed the continent meagrely through the winter, if Germany would or could distribute it. Cold probability was that the victims of the Nazis faced famine. Fortnight ago, Herbert Hoover proposed that the British lift their blockade to let ships from the U. S. pass through with supplies for Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway...
...Invited the British to relax their blockade, so that the U. S. could feed the population of German-occupied areas. "Their [the Belgians'] situation is very, very serious. . . . Present supplies, with severe rationing . . . will last until September 1, or at best early October. If you gentlemen think the Continent is a howling hell now, what do you think it will be this winter...
Franklin Roosevelt almost certainly did not intend to ask the British to let the U. S. feed Hitler's victims, unless U. S. public opinion forced such a step. Neither did the U. S. Red Cross, which up to last week had distributed about $8,000,000 to stricken Europe, hardly knew what to do with the balance of a $20,000,000 relief fund (except to continue helping Great Britain, perhaps send medical supplies, baby food, etc. to unoccupied France). And Washington had no doubts about what Britain would say, if she were asked to give...
...Robert Frost, whose function, thinks Critic Brooks, is "to mediate between New England and the mind of the rest of the nation." This chapter reads like an afterthought. Critic Brooks's task was finished before he wrote it. His task was to create an intellectual tradition that could feed the newly emerging U. S. cultural nationalism...