Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommendations seem to be advantageous, I assume we will accept them. If they appear to be disadvantageous, we are certainly free to reject them ... I think it is worth something to us that there are brave people close to danger who are willing, if need be, to absorb the first shock of devastating attack ... It is not right to treat such people as mendicants." As for an armament race, "that cannot occur under the treaty without our consent, and the Congress, through its control of appropriations, has that situation under its control...
...Menace (Republic), Hollywood's first full-length ABC of U.S. communism, is like most primers: earnest and elementary. In fact, it is so elementary that it hardly gets beyond spelling out the ideological equivalent...
Sheean came to a crucial religious question, whether certainty of God preceded renunciation of the world. Gandhi answered at once, "No, the renunciation precedes the certainty." Then he quoted to Sheean the first verse of the Isha Upanishad: "The whole world is the garment of the Lord. Renounce it, then, and receive it back as the gift...
Catch. In Denver, city officials totted up the results of the first week's fishing at the City Park lake: two swans, one snow goose, one live duck, one dead duck...
...Safety First. In Louisville, Mrs. Sarah McGrew, suing the city for $5,580, charged that she had tripped and fallen over a safety campaign sign...