Word: needs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Need I point out that our present-day industrial strife, our rampant racialism, our subversion of the Bill of Rights, our continuous wrangling over states' rights, etc., indicate that we have failed to achieve our stated national purposes rather than that we do not have any national purposes...
...search for a purpose" is of course the very purpose we need-a society inspired with a fire of desire for the truth and meaning of man's existence would lead to better rockets, better schools, better knowledge, better men, and-with hope-a better nation...
...Pyrenees flank in better shape, De Gaulle could continue to the next item on his agenda for France, expressed in the next sentence of his memoirs: "To make of it one of the three world powers, to become one day, if need be, the arbiter between the Soviet and Anglo-Saxon camps...
...influence stems from a journalistic ideal, first defined in 1843 by its creator, a liberal London banker named James Wilson, and restated a century later by Sir Geoffrey Crowther, editor from 1938 to 1956. The Economist's creed: "To hold opinions, to hold them strongly and if need be to express them strongly, but to have as few prejudices as possible." Following that creed, the Economist tries to be passionately nonpartisan on parties, passionately partisan on issues. Founding Editor Wilson argued spiritedly for free trade, and his successors have pounded relentlessly against import quotas, for the convertibility of sterling...
...friend and defender, Biologist Thomas Huxley, went on to describe what he called a "religion" of the future-although it sounded a lot like the old humanist faith of the past. This "belief-system, framework of values, ideology, call it what you will," said Huxley, will have "no need or room for the supernatural." It will be evolutionary, because "the earth was not created, it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves, mind and soul as well as brain and body...