Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happen to agree with . . . your article as to the superior merits of a true federation of the world. But I am not going to waste any energy working for this ideal at the present time. I want to back a plan that has a chance of being adopted in the immediate future. . . . The plan for me is Mr. Culbertson...
Report on Manners. One of the most mannerly planes yet, the Hellcat flies straight and true, which makes it a good gunnery platform, just about lands itself, which makes it ideal for carrier operation. But it also has the "hot" qualities a fighter needs: dazzling rate of climb, plenty of speed and lots of high-altitude performance...
...high, thin, wispy cirrus cloud and its relatives, the milky cirrostratus and ripply cirrocumulus, are ideal cover for high-altitude bombers: they provide a one-way screen that allows an airman to see his target but hides him from planes or groundlings below...
...Austria and Germany and Prince Metternich, for 33 years the mastermind of the Alliance, fled his country; the Unholy Alliance was dead. Yet its influence on the minds of men lived on. For this despotic use of international force by a club of contented war-winners gave the whole ideal of international police an unsavory aura which lasted well into the 20th Century...
Added starters: ten Christmas carols, some of the great German chorals whose sweep and power make them ideal for congregational singing. Many an old hymn has changed its tune. Hymns that were too high-pitched for most singers have been set in a lower key. Except in cases where the hymn is one of praise or prayer, Amen has been dropped from endings...