Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first session of the 81st Congress, which had begun its work in high hope ten months ago and passed through despairing depths, ended last week in wan and shaky congratulations among the Democratic majority. There was a great deal of tired, last-minute fun: barbershop ballads, a few well-placed smooches on the cheek by departing Congresswomen and gay festivities by congressional employees (see cut) whose salaries had just been raised...
...time of great prosperity, it went beyond the President's deficit-spending policy in forcing the nation to live on borrowed money. The expected deficit for this year is $5 billion (Harry Truman had estimated it at $873 million). The deficit might yet prove to be the most dangerous bequest of the 81st Congress to a nation which was already $256 billion in debt...
...that we have a long-range bomber that can fly from any base in the world, attack targets in the range of 4,000 miles and return home." It was obvious that "workers live near factories and that if you bomb the factories, you may bomb the people . . . Any great injury you can inflict upon the morale of that nation," he added, "contributes to the victory . . . We are all aware of the awful penalty if we lose the war." As for morality-"war itself is immoral...
...thought the funds could be better employed elsewhere. The only enemy in sight was a great land force which had negligible naval strength outside of its submarines...
...believe," a young London mother told a meeting of 3,600 other British mothers last week, "that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled priggish. In consequence, people are sometimes afraid to show disapproval of what they know to be wrong...