Word: nourishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geography, old hates and fears, and honest military opinion unite the diverse groups who believe the defeat of Japan more urgent and more important than the defeat of Germany. The West Coast faces the Orient. Isolationists still nourish their conviction that the U.S. has no business in Europe's messes, still argue privately that anyway Japan is the only one who has yet attacked us. Anglophobes suspect Britain, Red haters fear Russia. The Hearst press has not forgotten the Yellow Peril. Further, a considerable number of sense-making military officers and civilian observers believe and can show that Japan...
...truths and ideals must be the equipment of millions of humble leaders close to the task. Americans are too close to their destiny to rely only on a few far-away leaders. They must find near at hand those who can formulate the causes, interpret principle in definite acts, nourish their spirit by giving them tasks to work on in the direction of their hopes...
Such objections merely sidestep an issue which has become even more pressing since our entrance into the war. The "Princetonian" notes that "Japanese propagandists are capitalizing on American racial discrimination to nourish disunion at home and among our one thousand million colored allies. . . . It would be easier to deal with their charges if the kernel of truth contained in them were smaller." It is not only anomalous, but dangerous, to criticize British subjugation of the Indians, to scoff at Hitler's doctrine of blood and soil, while we continue blindly on our way, dealing with our own "burden" like imperialists...
...their customs is pure Ainu: To raise and nourish bear cubs intended for religious sacrifice, Ainu women suckle them. This sacrificial throat-cutting is supposed to release divine spirits...
...They produce enough milk through enough functional nipples-four or more-to feed their twins. Most other sheep have only two nipples, which can scarcely nourish twins and which thus militates against a race of twin-bearers...