Word: limit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army generals wanted the Defense Secretary to define the role of the Marine Corps, hoped it would be to Army prescription, i.e., virtually to limit the Marines to small-unit Commando work and overseas police duties. If this were done, the Marines would require units of no more than brigade strength (8,000), would probably also have to take a big cut in overall strength. The Army could go ahead on the assumption that only the Army would run off the big land operations if war should come, could thus have all the planning under one roof...
...lesson is not to limit these liberties, but to be thoroughly conscious of American Communists' threat to liberties. True, the lesson is not more Truman Doctrines, but more affirmative, constructive policies, such as the Marshall Plan, to protect and hold democrats in their liberal convictions. Key Geotenberg...
...trade-and especially the speculators whom Anderson's boss, President Truman, likes to thump-did not need much study to know what the program meant. When the Chicago market opened next day, May wheat promptly jumped the permissible daily limit of 10? a bushel, with other futures not far behind. The rise in wheat pulled up corn, oats, soybeans and lard. By week's end, profit-taking by traders had reduced some of the gains. But Anderson held out hope for another rise. The Government, he hinted cheerily, might resume wheat-buying fairly soon...
There are other perils-a dissolving perspective of paradox. Man's knowledge is limited, but not completely limited, since he has some sense of the limits-and, to that degree, transcends them. And, as he transcends them, he seeks to understand his immediate situation in terms of a total situation-i.e., God's will. But man is unable to understand the total situation except in the finite terms of his immediate situation. "The realization of the relativity of his knowledge subjects him to the peril of skepticism. The abyss of meaninglessness yawns on the brink...
...achieves, but he knows no peace, because higher possibilities are revealed in each achievement. In all his anxious acts man faces the temptation of illimitable possibility. "There is therefore no limit of achievement in any sphere of activity in which human history can rest with equanimity." History cannot pause. Its evil and its good are inextricably interwoven. Says Niebuhr: the creative and the destructive elements in anxiety are so mixed that to purge even moral achievement of sin is not so easy as moralists imagine...