Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judgment, so far as organization and administration go, Mr. Dewey would prove one of the ablest Presidents who ever sat in the White House. He would pick the best brains the country afforded, regardless of the politicians or party lines, he would delegate authority, he would have departments that clicked from top to bottom...
Peter the Great once called Viipuri the solid shutters of his window on Europe. When the shutters collapsed last week and Viipuri fell, the way to Helsinki, 140 miles away, lay open. Finland, by military judgment, was all but out of the war (see FOREIGN NEWS). The newspaper Suomen Sosialidemokraati said that "the whole nation hopes that the present abnormal situation can be eliminated . . . so that it can get back to peaceful ways...
...interlude Eisenhower had worked hard at home and abroad-most notably as MacArthur's technical adviser in the Philippines. He had kept his eye on his number, acquired as solid a military background as a U.S. officer could get. He had diligently cultivated his chief virtues of smartness, judgment, a concern for fine detail and a marked ability to make people work...
...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 morning. In their various ways pagans and pastors acknowledged their presence "in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment...
...great Protestant "doctrine of private judgment," vital to the freedom of the individual Christian, often turned into personal despotism and religious schism, until, as a Vermont farmer said, "each generation grew wiser and weaker...