Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These would be brave new deeds to put the U.S. in a brave new economic and moral position in the world. There was only one catch. How did Jimmy Byrnes's people feel...
...longer free. But hardly have you plunged into New York than you are living completely in the dimensions of New York. . . . You will never be held by any of its streets, for none of them is distinguished by a beauty peculiar to itself. . . . Nowhere more than here can you feel the simultaneity of human lives...
...cannot view them without sadness: they speak of a time when we thought the last war had been fought, when we believed in peace. Already they are slightly neglected; tomorrow, perhaps, they will be demolished. . . . To build them in the first place required a faith we no longer feel...
...Four's Foreign Ministers bogged down in deadlocks at Paris last week, Jimmy Byrnes leaned forward in his armchair. He eyed the pile of papers before him on the green-topped table and waved aside the conflicts they contained. "Gentlemen," he smiled, "it appears that we all feel we cannot trust each other on small problems. Let us see if we cannot trust each other on big ones...
...Dutch know that they have a hard road ahead. Viewing their Indonesian empire more as businessmen than as politicians, they are quite willing to give it political independence, assuming that the Indonesians will not disturb heavy Dutch investments (prewar estimate: nearly $2 billion). They feel keenly that they cannot be isolated or made immune from the ideological and economic storms that trouble the world. But the Dutch also remember that they have faced danger for centuries-the danger of the sea and the danger of a land divided by intense religious differences. They count on Wilhelmina to help them through...