Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked like the worst kind of lame-duck appointment. Cried Wendell Willkie: "The appointment is ... revolting to all decent citizens. The difference between the high professions of President Roosevelt's and Vice President Wallace's speeches and the Administration's low political performance is a tragic paradox...
...paradox, if you will, that a free society must protect within these limits those who oppose the fundamental premise on which this society is founded. Yet, to my mind, this paradox is a necessity which springs from the choice between the two conceptions of human ethics as opposite as the poles. It is a consequence of a belief in the sacrosanct nature of the individual and a rejection of the view which glorifies the collective aim. To argue that the rights of the individual are a purely utilitarian invention is to deprive the underlying American ideal of its cutting edge...
...Catalina's changes, Maritime Service trainees lamented one great paradox: in the ballroom of the St. Catherine the hot band of Maritime Service Lieut. (j.g.) Phil Harris played music worthy of the island's hottest days, while in all of Avalon were only 14 single girls old enough for dates...
...Paradox is that these results were palatable to New Dealers and conservatives alike. New Dealers could cheer on the theory that less public spending by the States may mean more ultimate power to gargantuan Washington. But conservatives figured that if people have tired of fancy State expenditures, they may one day turn on Washington also...
Franklin Roosevelt's anti-inflation program produced a neat socio-political paradox last week. It turned out that the New Deal had taken control over all wages and salaries in the land, had set a $25,000 ceiling on earned income-but had let the nation's coupon clippers go scot free. It was enough to make a New Dealer weep...