Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Testifying at the Lilienthal hearings a fortnight ago, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson made the thoroughly accurate judgment that "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." His frankness cocked a few U.S. ears; it set the Kremlin a-growl. Barked Comrade Molotov: "Inadmissible behavior. . . gross slander and hostile to the Soviet Union...
...midst of all the bustle, Congressmen found time to listen to an old friend. Blowing into town from Salida, Colo., bearded 82-year-old Prospector Frank E. Gimlett-who regularly turns up before Congress-clumped up to the Hill to tell Congress what was wrong with the country. His judgment this year: too few gold and silver coins; too many labor unions...
...unreligious society there is no cessation of judgment as to what is right and what is wrong. Such judgments are made, however, not out of fear of some mysterious supernatural unknown, but for the sake of the right action itself...
Right to Left. Boomed the clear, cultured voice of a thin, scholarly-looking man lunching in his heavy ulster at a Soho restaurant: "I say it's the judgment of the Almighty on the British people for voting Socialist...
Suspended Judgment. The people had not entirely given up hope that their King would pull them together. When George left the seclusion of his palace last week to attend a requiem service at the Metropolis Cathedral for a distant relative, Sweden's Prince Gustaf Adolf (recently killed in an airplane crash), the crowd lining University Boulevard neither cheered nor booed; they clapped politely. The people were still willing to withhold their judgment on their King-but not for much longer. Said one Athenian indifferently as the King's grey-green Rolls-Royce passed by: "Oh, I suppose...