Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every impulse, wish and act of the U.S. will hereafter matter to the Western world. Never before have the attitudes and capacities of so many other nations mattered so much to the U.S. What awaits Americans in the Europe which they have undertaken to preserve, restore, and if need be to defend...
...apparent now. But the wish and the cry for it are here. If Europe's millions have any defined yearning, it is for a belief, a life, a place worth having and holding. The immediate symptoms of this half-conscious need are two common emotions, which will condition many of the attitudes which we encounter with our aid in Europe. One is pride. The other is guilt...
...been called on to make such a decision. ... On account of the contributions we made during the northern expedition and the war of resistance, the foundation of the republic has been greatly strengthened. The idea of democracy has become a popular sentiment. In these circumstances our party does not need to keep the post and honor of the presidency. . . . We can entrust to a person outside the party the grave responsibility of making the constitution a living thing. Only in this manner shall we rally the support of the people...
Next day George Marshall answered for the U.S. His Government, he said, would ask World Bank loans for Latin America, and make fresh funds available for new loans from the Export-Import Bank. But the kind of economic development Latin America needed, he said, was simply beyond the U.S. Government's capacity. His suggestion for latinos: invite private capital to help. To show that this need not mean economic bondage, he cited the use the U.S. made of foreign capital in its i gth Century industrialization...
...need not have worried; the critics were "kind"; Kuniyoshi's artist friends, who call him "Yas" (for Yasuo), were jubilant. What gloom there was, and there was plenty, emanated from the pictures themselves...