Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who felt that the Protestant churches of the U.S. would fail in their duty if they compromised with the crude expediency of power politics. Leading the debate were two distinguished antagonists: John Foster Dulles and Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of the Christian Century, who rejected the label of "perfectionism" but perfectly stated the perfectionist case...
...foreign policy agreed on one thing last week: a Big Three meeting might help. But the suspicion persisted that even more necessary was a basic shift in the Administration's thinking. A "tea for three" meeting now had little meaning so long as the U.S. continued to label all political problems: "Do Not Open Until Peace." The news of Poland and Greece was that Britain and Russia each had specific, immediate, well-planned aims in Europe. It was high time for the U.S. to abandon finger-shaking at what it did not like about the ideas of other nations...
...informal label belied the alert and determined play which marked the club's campaign against opponents of widely varied abilities. The lone defeat was sustained at the hands of the Melville Raiders, a club well stocked with former All-Americans and professionals...
While pouring out the good news last week, Chairman Krug cagily kept his hand over the label, refused to admit that corn would be released to distillers for bourbon during January. But this year's corn crop is a record 3,258,000,000 bushels, some 61,000,000 bushels more than estimated a month ago, while corn-consuming hogs are down 25% from 1943. If War Food Administration's December announcement releases corn for bourbon, no one will be greatly surprised, few will be unhappy...
Fourth Cross. A month later he got in the way of a bursting shell. Seven fragments landed in the indignant Puller's body. The surgeon wanted to tag him as a casualty and evacuate him. "Take that tag and label a bottle with it," Puller roared, "I'll stay here." Later, he ruefully noted in his combat journal: "I found myself unable to keep up with my battalion," and he had to go back to the hospital compound. But he did not stay long...