Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inches Mean Little...
...backed out of the Marshall plan when Russia sent over word that she didn't like the idea. What Benes said was that the Czechs are not between Russia and America, but between Russia and Germany, and Germany and America begin to mean the same thing when the US starts planning to reindustrialize the Western Zones. The French feel the same way. At the bottom of it, you've got to realize that Germans were here for six years, that people in the street, the guy who runs the hotdog stand on the corner and all of Norman Corwin...
...that he doesn't speak for everyone in America. There were too many irresponsible fools in Europe just serving to gum up the works. They appeared in print all over the place and they added nothing but confusion and bad feeling to the situation. And I don't mean criticism by the Moscow New Times, I mean by reasonable, intelligent papers like Combat and Le Monde in Paris...
When a native son leaves for Harvard, the folks back home are in constant fear that he will return with the above characteristics plus the additional herrer of a proper Bostonian accent. Of course, he never does adopt any of these features for he knows it would mean complete social ostracism...
...destiny of his new masters in Germany life and conquest, and that, therefore, his listeners had better change sides and submit. This was often terrible to hear, for the news in the papers confirmed it. He was not only alarming, he was ugly; he opened a vista into a mean life. . . . He went further than that smug mockery of our plight. He sinned that sin which is the dark travesty of legitimate hatred . . . just as incest is the dark travesty of legitimate love...