Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply to a question on Lend-Lease supplies sent to China, Dr. Hu replied that he had no doubt that both the British and the Americans had done their best under the severe limitations existing. "It is difficult for the layman to judge the problem," he said. "The situation cannot be radically altered without a large scale land, air and naval campaign against the Japanese in Burma...
...Greatest Gift. Psychiatrists say that soldiers should be taught that fear is a normal reaction. On this subject, World War I Veteran Ernest Hemingway makes a layman's observation in Men at War: "Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present minute with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire...
...this hullabaloo the Forest Service had one further talking point that may sway Layman Roosevelt to rule in its favor. The only obvious way to prove whether or not the popguns can rescue the nation from the threatened lumber shortage is to let them try. If a way can also be found to give the big mills more labor and machinery, that would be just so much more gravy...
...Fuller can be sound about Tunisia eleven months in advance, he can also be very instructive about Thermopylae, 2,400 years afterwards. His Decisive Battles (Scribner; $4.50) is a layman's shortest shortcut to an understanding of war. Now, in Decisive Battles of the U.S.A., General Fuller has given U.S. citizens a similar shortcut to an appreciation of specifically U.S. talents and weaknesses on the field of battle. It is a book for the education of armchair strategists...
...Action. Precisely because he writes as a layman for laymen, Lawyer John Foster Dulles' paper is of special importance. He says: "There are those who assert that during war our thoughts should be of nothing beyond military victory and that the Christian virtues should be laid aside and dependence placed upon primitive emotions. The demand that Christians thus choose between Christ and State is one that can be and must be rejected. To reject it involves no disloyalty to State, for what we are seeking for the American people is nothing that will prove a weakness. Our purpose...