Word: habitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impatient & Infirm. In short, Byrnes is a practical politician with the limitations and assets of that breed. Among the limitations is the habit of not making decisions until they are forced upon him. While Byrnes has been saddled with negotiations on Europe, no U.S. policy ha's been made in wide areas of the world. The U.S. Palestine policy as enunciated by Truman was mere mischievous vote-catching, as unrealistic in its extreme pro-Zionism as the Grand Mufti's antiSemitism. No one is really making policy on Latin America. On China, a key piece...
...environment in the world, doesn't like to be told anything. Rabble rousers and the Hearst press can fool him easily with sly propaganda, but direct instruction, though conducted with the finest intentions, leaves him cold and unaffected. In effect, the Army was trying to break a bad American habit by one hour of orientation a week...
...Commerce Department, in a helpful little guidebook for veterans in search of a job, pointed out that it is risky to start a restaurant, because 80% fail or are sold out within five years. But it hastily added that running a restaurant can be good business and that the habit of eating will continue to grow...
...said that the guiding spirit of the five-power principle is the division of rights and power.. . .But for a thousand years, the Chinese people have lacked the training to protect their rights. Frankly, we can say that they have not yet the ability or the habit. . . . They must be shielded against power...
Sister Theophane and Sister Michael, wearing the blue-grey habit of the Medical Mission Sisters,* arrived in Santa Fe, N. Mex. one bleak November day in 1943. The sisters had not come for the scenery. They were there because of a grim fact: Santa Fe County had the highest infant mortality rate (111 per 1,000) and the second highest maternal death rate (over...