Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everybody knew that Harry Truman was not satisfied with his State Department, which had never known too much about Franklin Roosevelt's international dealings. Next to Harry Hopkins, Byrnes probably knew more than any man. Furthermore, he had his own on-the-spot judgment of the personalities and intentions of Stalin, Molotov & Co., and it was the kind of hard, realistic judgment that Harry Truman was likely to hear with confidence...
...poison penman John O'Donnell. Even before the conference opened, O'Donnell said that "nothing ever was staged in this generation on such a scale of mass hypocrisy and global double cross." The News's isolationist sister, the Chicago Tribune, had already passed similar judgment : "The prime purpose . . . is to make certain that whenever the next war comes . . . we shall...
...What judgment shall be passed on the generations of Germans who were children when the Nazis came to power, who have never known anything but the Naziism which patiently perverted them? In the vast Nürnberg stadium, G.I.s caught up last week with one such German - now a young, blond Storm Trooper...
Plainer than any words, the buying rush gave Wall Street's coldly unsentimental opinion. It might prove to be snap judgment. But the judgment seemed to be that the reforming spirit of the New Deal which had changed the face of business in the last twelve years had died with the reformer...
...Hypo sometimes affected the judgment. In one recorded case an old gentleman got up in the morning and tried to put on a small boy's pantaloons. He wakened the house with a roar: "What's the matter? Why, can't you see what's the matter? I'm swelled as big as an ox. I cannot get my big toe into my pantaloons...