Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The possibilities of these questions occurred to Mr. Taft, who hadn't previously done much thinking along such lines, when the Chief of Police of Shirley dropped in and made tentative motions towards including the new settlement within his pale. Two jumps ahead of the law, Mr. Taft calculated the...
"Britain, who thinks she saved the world, is mute in the bonds of austerity; Russia, who thinks she saved the world, sits back, enormous, suspicious, watching; and America, who thinks she saved the world, makes one think of a nervous, hysterical girl holding a hand grenade, not knowing when it...
"Man drinks because he desires, intends, wills to experience the effects of drink. . . . Conceding that men do not deliberately intend to become chronic alcoholics, what shall be said of a man who, knowing the ultimate results, seeks the accumulative effects which liquor produces? If a sane man chooses to loose...
Persian leftists charged that the rebels were getting arms from "a foreign power." Britain indignantly denied any part in the revolt (causing New York Post Columnist Edgar Ansel Mowrer to exclaim: "then fate is pro-British"). Knowing Britons hinted that they would not be so foolish as to stir up...
Railroad workers struck first, tying up every railway in the zone. They demanded 100% wage increases and "labor reforms" along lines said to be in effect in Russia's zone. Next the Communists threatened a strike of all public utilities, including power plants. Knowing that southern Korea has no...