Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What an ideal time to get across the message of the Crucifixion to young, impressionable men who, on Easter Sunday morning, would leave our ship on such a dangerous mission! That was an Easter parade I shall never forget, and ex-Chaplain Clark will forever be my hero of the Battle of Okinawa. Perhaps the combat photographers would prefer men kneeling at confession, but men in need of spiritual and physical help will always prefer a John Ruskin Clark...
...ideal would be to produce a situation in which it could be said that every man, woman and child . . . understood the large outlines-economic, racial, social and political -of modern international relations...
...part. His close-cropped mustache, his energetic briskness, his ready laugh, seemed to fit the schoolmaster more than the top-rank churchman. Yet among graduates of haughty, hockey-playing St. Paul's it has been no secret that the school and Headmaster Nash have not been an ideal couple...
...closer to the American woman's ideal is the attractive and productive lady of the home, the farm, the office, who offers useful goods or services for the benefit of herself, her family and her country...
Sample of Soekarno's oratory: "Our ideal is an automobile for everybody. . . ." (At present few cars travel Java's pot-holed roads.) "I've just received a letter from a young girl who wants to be an airplane pilot. . . . That's right, hitch your aims to the stars. . . . We can laugh, we can eat and some day we can have clothes. . . . But our ideals will not be realized easily. We must struggle for them...