Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green's rival, John Lewis, has one book to his credit: Miners' Fight for American Standards, published...
...thing he made perfectly clear was that there is some talk in the U. S. that when the abrogated Trade Treaty of 1911 lapses in January, it might be followed not by a new treaty, but by an embargo. To tell a Japanese that Americans do not like to fight Japan's war for them is not to threaten...
...hrer: "While you have been talking, my army has been doing." He turns to Mussolini for help. "Do you suppose," barks Il Duce, "that I am going to ruin my country to make you emperor of the universe?" He turns to the diplomat, taunting him that England will not fight. "Fight? We shall wipe you off the face of the earth!" He turns defiantly to them all: "I shall sweep through Poland like a hurricane." "Do so by all means, Comrade," coos the Commissar. "When you have finished, you will settle with me how much of it you may keep...
...Baruch's thesis is that most children's troubles arise from their mothers' and fathers' worries. Children, she believes, always sense such worries, feel insecure themselves. When a mother worries because her children disobey, sulk or fight, Mrs. Baruch brings her to school, lets her observe other children and find out that disobedience, sulking, fighting are normal childish behavior. Result: The mother goes home feeling more tolerant toward herself and children, more serene...
...twenty-five years later, must these parallels bring the same results? Two minutes on Saturday tell another story. Where in 1914 there was indifference, today there is a public devoted as never before to Peace. In 1914 there was just hope, today there is fight. Every meeting over the weekend, from the extreme pacifists to the Anti-War Committee and the Student Union, is symbolic of an aroused America. Let the interventionists and the "savers of civilization" have their say, but let every word be answered by a thousand "Nos," not for a month or two, nor even a year...