Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale, you can learn "all the dope you need in order to become a father," and you don't even have to go to the trouble and expense of a trip Smithward to acquire...
Curiously enough, N.S.A. was conceived in Europe. At the height of the war, a handful of exiled European students and scholars met in London. Seeking some machinery that would help insure peace, the laid the groundwork for an International Union of Students. The need for a nation-wide organization that would faithfully represent, students of this country in such an international unit resulted in N.S.A...
...real freedom from want. A great many of them had more money-and more of the things that money could buy-than ever before in their lives, or in history. To all the rest of the world, America seemed like a dream of plenty in the nightmare of worldwide need. To most Americans too, their prosperity was a dream, and an uneasy one. The gap between the U.S. ideal of peace & prosperity (as symbolized in wartime posters) and the reality with which the U.S. was surrounded, was sharp and deep. If this was peace & prosperity-and what else...
...fight in order to get on with the aid program. Speaker of the House Joe Martin announced that as far as he was concerned, G.O.P. tax legislation would not be introduced until the regular session in January. Harry Truman did his part by announcing that price legislation need not have priority over foreign aid. Everyone was dedicated to the great deed...
...hundred years these words have been sung,† or spoken, or whispered by men & women in time of need. The words were sung while the Titanic was sinking and on the beaches of Dunkirk. In World War I, Nurse Edith Cavell repeated the hymn as she faced the firing squad. It has often been heard in prison camps, and it has sounded faintly through the wreckage of caved-in mines...