Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belongs to the state, and such half baked ideas that the survival of the fittest is a natural law that applies to men and nations. These ideas, falling on the minds of men over the wide areas of nations build up into a mighty flood that sweeps away the hard won freedoms...
...that war has come and the issues are joined in battle between these two opposing qualities of thought, we who believe in our way of life and our hard won freedoms for the individual have no choice but to fight it out, in one way or another. ... If the actual battleground can be confined to the continent of Europe it will certainly be the part of wisdom for this country to do its part fully to see that this issue is settled as completely as possible in the place where war has been started...
Sept. 2: "It is hard to see how he can sleep at night and think of the people in many nations whom he may send to their deaths...
Delegates left this enormous detail to be settled in good time, embarked at once on a round of cocktail parties, formal dinners, golf-matches, swimming (behind the shark net at Fort Amur's beach). But in between festivities they labored hard on this intensification of the Monroe Doctrine, this deliberate abandonment of the freedom of the seas. At Sumner Welles's announcement of definite financial aid, proving the solidity of U. S. intentions, Latin-American diplomats leaped. Shortly...
...Food was scarce and hard to get. The average German was nearly always hungry, if he lived on his rations. If he went to a restaurant, he found it crowded and stifling, the shuttered windows keeping out the fresh air. Pork, veal and beef seldom appeared on the menus, but there was plenty of venison, wild pig and wildfowl. Shot on estates and in forests, they would not provide an inexhaustible food supply. These dishes were expensive, but the diner had to take them or else get nothing...