Word: mortalities
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Said young, martyred Mr. Lindbergh: "This is not a life that I enjoy. Speaking is not my vocation and political life is not my ambition. ... I have done this because I believe my country is in mortal danger...
Bursting into this gigantic city the [enemy] will come into a stone labyrinth, where every house will be for them either a riddle, or a threat, or a mortal danger. Whence can they expect a blow? From the window? From the attic? From the cellar? From around the corner? Everywhere. At our disposition are rifles, machine guns, hand grenades. We can cover some streets with barbed-wire entanglements, leave others open and turn them into traps. It is only necessary that some thousands of men should firmly decide not to give...
...even heavier hand on private industry. The U.S. would have to learn to produce as Germany did under Hitler, and figure out a way to keep individual freedom. The U.S. would have to maintain a huge armament program. (But after all, the General told himself: "Hitler ... is mortal and he'll die some day. The way to tame a rebel is to make him rich and then he becomes conservative and settles down.") The net, as the General cast it up: retention of "most of the good things of our way of life and progress as a great nation...
...Three Motorcycles." The top organization, Office for Emergency Management, was aptly described by Washington News Columnist Richard F. Scholz as "President Roosevelt, Wayne Coy and three motorcycles." OPM, the great factory whose most famed product is bottlenecks and coordinators, was in almost mortal combat with OPACS-merely over method. OPM and Lend-Lease Administration were fighting fiercely over jurisdiction. OPM and the Army were scrapping about ordnance; the Army and Lend-Lease were at loggerheads over which should get the produced planes, tanks, guns, etc. OPM and the Office of Civilian Defense were at odds; the State Department wrestled with...
...fancy-dress uniform." He had no conception of what was going on. Men by the millions were wrought into massive awareness of life & death; Rilke saw only evil and suffering, and little of that unless it frustrated him personally. He committed what is, for any great artist, a mortal error: "he underrated humanity...