Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The attitude of Negro civilians towards Negro soldiers was frequently indifferent and sometimes as antagonistic as the whites'. In Chattanooga, Tenn., Negro rooming house owners told Negro soldiers and their families: "We've got rooms but we haven't got any for you." At Sebring, Fla., a...
In Brooklyn, bearded patriarchs of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home marched the street in prayer shawls and skull caps, sounding the shofars. At St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, and at many & many another church, the indifferent city warmed, and people came to pray, to weep, to share that world...
» 7,500 planes and 31,000 airmen-in indifferent flying weather-during the first eight hours.
But most Japs were careless. There was a false alert May 24 (when U.S. flyers apparently extended a flight over the Kuril Islands). Lazy inhabitants suddenly discovered that their many safety trenches, dug along Tokyo's streets, were waterlogged. Said the Tokyo press next day: "It was high time...
No Helmet. Alexander is indifferent to heat, cold, rain, dust, danger and food. This convenient oblivion enables him to concentrate on tactics and strategy and a quiet craze for physical fitness in his troops. No matter how eccentric his dress, he usually looks neat as a pin and sharp as...