Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tetsu Katayama, Japan's overworked Premier, was ordered by his doctors to see if rest wouldn't help that "nervous lump" on his head...
Next day Judge French brought home a lump of clay for Daniel to practice on, and for seven years Daniel practiced diligently. When the family moved to Concord, dashing May Alcott (Louisa's sister), who had studied sculpture in Paris, gave him a few pointers, and Neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson too was moved to smile on Daniel's work. That was enough. Writes Margaret: "With that fine conviction in their own capacity to produce the best . . . Concord commissioned its youthful representative of the plastic art to model a statue of a Minute...
...time when the big stick has become an atom bomb, it is dangerous for the United States to lump foreign policy and domestic political-economic problems together in one pocket. We have been doing just that regarding our relations with the Soviet Union and with home-baked Communists. America may oppose Russian expansion towards the Dardanelles or Middle East oil, but we cannot do so simply because Russia is a Communist state and we dislike the American Communists. Similarly, it is a fallacy to oppose American Communists simply because we disapprove of Russian foreign policy...
...with force. Next, we should take the offensive, drawing first Latin America and then other nations into our new "World Empire," suppressing communism as we go. At home, Burnham would have us illegalize the Communist Party and crush all its "fronts;" his black and white approach leads him to lump the Federation of Atomic Scientists with "The New Masses" in this category. Communism, he trusts, will die for good when once it is suppressed...
...growing ranks of Protestants who are raising this pertinent question. This week, the Christian Century published Layman Luce's speech. Excerpts: , "Between us and the early church is the obvious difference that we Christians have become a great thing in the world. They were the leaven in the lump; we have become the lump. ... If today the laws of human society are not in conformity with the will of God, we cannot say that it is because God has not given us enough votes! ... To have such power and not use it is certainly to be wicked and unprofitable...