Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldiers & the Bomb. Except for one thing, 1945 would have been the year of the Allied military men, of Zhukov or Montgomery, of Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower or Nimitz, or-as in many respects it was-of G.I. Joe, an unwilling hero, not knowing what he was fighting for but fighting...
The Assembly Line. If any one man had produced the atom bomb, he would have been the Man of 1945 without challenge. But science, as it became more complex, had become an assembly line, where individual men contributed a turn here and a tw.ist there, often without knowing what came...
And what is fear? It is conceit: Knowing sufficient of the future to dislike it. And insufficient to ignore it, it is self-love implicit.
There were other heartening signs of reviving trade. Many cotton mills have resumed production, thanks to the first shipments of cotton from Anderson, Clayton & Co. In the best free enterprising tradition, Anderson, Clayton had shipped the cotton without knowing who would buy it or how it would be paid for...
Had Marshall ever told Franklin Roosevelt of the letters to Dewey? Said Marshall: "The President died without knowing of it."