Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "The ideal of a provincial nation of simple, humble people, far from the beaten track . . . has given way to realization that we have become the world's greatest power. . . . Even if we elected to do nothing whatever, we would be inextricably involved in everything that takes place in the world...
...Mayor, then got ready to pummel him some more. He called for a flat $2-a-day raise for all his workers on New York City's transportation system, which has been losing $40,000,000 a year. Wryly, the Times commented that perhaps here was the ideal case to apply the C.I.O.'s "ability-to-pay" principle...
...made it clear that some theoretical study had been completed on perpendicular biasts before Army engineers atomized their 200 ft. electrical tower in August. But since nothing of sufficient magnitude could be artificially created, it was impossible to secure ideal control and observational conditions...
...statement, delivered off the cuff at a White House press conference, called for holding the islands under "individual trusteeship," and it gave some hope to friends of UNO who believe that the trusteeship ideal of the San Francisco conference can somehow be maintained. The same words caused some qualms among those Congressmen and Army & Navy chiefs who believe the U.S. should annex Pacific islands outright. The qualms were unjustified...
...preamble to the Charter of the United Nations admirably sets out the ideals for which men and women laid down their lives during the war. But the affirmation of principles is easy; the translation into action and the making of a working reality out of an ideal is very difficult. ... It is for us today, bearing in mind the great sacrifices that have been made, to prove ourselves no less courageous in approaching our great task, no less patient, no less self-sacrificing. We must and will succeed...