Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stassen's words, which everyone accepted, and the AEC's plan to develop bigger & better weapons, which everybody accepted too, was the kind of dilemma that ringed the U.S. these days, from every direction. The dilemma could only be solved by a paradox, by a miracle, by finding the moral equivalent of the atomic bomb...
...pretty foul when they start pitying "foreigners"). But the cold facts remain: goods are short in Britain, life is uncomfortable, and a great deal of work has to be done. The sober job of reconstruction, which a wide-eyed traveller from America cannot but admire longingly, causes a basic paradox in feeling among the people: pride in the toughness and hope for the future contradict a superficial annoyance with "queues" and controls and coupons that is becoming almost psychotic. If you're in accord with the aims and methods of the present government, you tend to emphasize the former...
...Zwink retired from village life and kept to his house, painting bad portraits and canvases of church interiors. A calendar portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hung on his wall throughout the war. He defines himself as an anti-Nazi "with a clean conscience." When someone made a joke about the paradox of his anti-Naziism and his Judas role, he said: "I find it pretty funny myself. One would expect at least the same [anti-Naziism] from Jesus Christ-but if it's not there, it's not there...
Created out of a Puritan dread of leaving "an illiterate ministry to the churches," the nation's oldest--and, perhaps correspondingly, wealthiest and most illustrious--university has, for the past two years, been quietly resolving the greatest paradox in its 311-year history. By Commencement next month, a special investigating commission will recommend to the Corporation a revitalizing treatment for one of the University's neediest members, the Divinity School...