Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He boasts shamelessly about his appetite for detective stories, "good, bad, and indifferent--I read them all." He polishes off at least one of the thrillers a day.
(See Cover) REWARD-DEAD OR ALIVE: Englishman, 25 years old, about 5 ft. 8 in. tall, indifferent build, walks "with a forward stoop, pale appearance, red-brownish hair, small and hardly noticeable mustache, talks through his nose and cannot pronounce the letter S properly.
In the second place, "the spiritual and ethical content has been exhausted from American education" with the abandonment of the Bible and the Classics as the core of the liberal curriculum. As a result, "our sons are cold to the agonies of the great tradition to which our culture belongs...
The mourners were supporters of the anti-Administration candidate, Juan Andreu Almazán. As they slowly trudged past the offices of the Partido de la Revolutión Mexicana, which supported the Government's candidate Manuel Avila Camacho, marchers silently and sullenly raised their fists. General Avila Camacho...
Willkie snapped: "I say to him, in all seriousness, that if he, as keynoter of the Republican Party, attempts to put the Republican Party on record as saying what is going on in Europe is none of our busi ness, then we might as well fold up." Minnesota's...