Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American generation permanently committed to the future of these countries, what does this mean? What does disease and demoralization among the future leaders of a nation involve in a social sense? It means first the physical loss of the most dynamic minds in countries that need them most, for in many cases the resistance leaders of the war spring from the universities and have now returned there, weakened by two, three, or four years of resistance activities. These men were leaders during the times of greatest crisis. Weakened as they are, they must not be countries whose whole future...
...workers' time between punching the time clock and starting work was a trifle (which could be ignored) or substantial (which must be paid for). And, in Justice Murphy's phrase, he was to do so "in light of the realities of the industrial world"-whatever that might mean...
...power declaration of November 1943) that Austria had merely been forced into Hitler's war, 2) Because Potsdam granted Russia German holdings in eastern Austria as reparations, Russia now claims all property seized by the Nazis during the occupation; the U.S. and Britain interpret the Potsdam clause to mean property owned by Germany before the Anschluss. 3) Russia wants to seize as war criminals most anti-Communist refugees from Soviet satellites who are now among the 400,000 D.P.s in Austrian camps; the U.S. and Britain insist that the Russians produce specific evidence before they make arrests...
...Rape is so mean, I think," Eve said. "It's just because they don't want...
...lower income groups are incapable of producing top academic timber, it remains that a great mass of men who could benefit most from the National Scholarships never apply for them. These men lie in the income groupings below the $4000 level, where a scholarship, in most cases, would mean the difference between college and no college, and not (as it is in higher income groups)--the difference between taking extra-curricular employment or not while at Harvard...