Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters (over 400 at this writing) from people he doesn't know, and one man, a Canadian lumber salesman who had read the story, dropped in at the plant to say "hello," explaining that he had felt like taking a trip and "just wanted to meet a fellow like...
...assume real leadership. Most of the time, instead of leading, Mr. Truman had been whipped around the curves like the last car of the train. Even on an issue in which he was right with most of the country, Mr. Truman found himself in wrong with most of his fellow Democrats. The Southerners howled with rage because he proposed to assure Negroes their constitutional rights. The fellow travelers had deserted him earlier because he would not appease Soviet Russia. His "muddling through" policy on Palestine pleased...
...turned out to be James Fidler,* a squarish, stocky young fellow with pleasantly twinkling eyes, carefully combed wavy hair and a professorial pointer in his hand. After a flourish of music and an announcer's explanation of the program, Fidler appeared on the telescreen, briskly went to work on the six maps that surrounded...
Niebuhr's chief contribution to U.S. liberal thinking, his friends say, is keeping his fellow liberals on the path of the pos sible. "You don't get world government," he once said, "by drawing up a fine constitution. You get it through the process of history. You grow into it." The feelings of his fellow theologians are more mixed. Some criticize his failure to think and act in terms of the church or to generate ideas that would help to counteract modern irreligion and immorality. Others find his ideas of sin too grandiose, too remote from the common...
Psychiatrists conclude that he fled Germany because he felt his isolation from his fellow Nazis growing. But plain citizens will get little help from this book in spotting psychopaths who may become leaders. Even in countries where there are still ballot boxes, political candidates do not yet throw their psychiatric case histories into the ring along with their hats...