Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What to do about the paradox? The solution, for the nations of Western Europe: European union, "one of the greatest dreams of Western man . . . Without such unification . . . Europe could go on in dreary repetition, possibly to the ultimate destruction of all the values these people themselves hold most dear." Moreover the whole "community of freedom" would be more independent, prosperous and secure with the fostering of mutual trade, the advancement of "legitimate political and economic aspirations," a mutual understanding of cultural traditions, and a promise of assistance to weaker nations by the stronger...
...horrors Hitler made, it is possible that the war on the Eastern front was the worst. It is a proper paradox that the worst has inspired the best in postwar German fiction. Two recent samples...
President Eisenhower: "We are working at top speed on this whole thing . . .But I do want to point this out. It is a little bit of a paradox to urge that we work just as hard as we know how on the guided missile and that we stop all research on the hydrogen bomb, because one without the other is rather useless . . .Research without test is perfectly useless...
...nasty slash of paradox defaces this pretty picture: though membership of the American Federation of Musicians last week stood at an alltime peak of 256,000, there are fewer jobs for U.S. musicians every month...
...statesmanship is to replace political expediency, legislators must seek a less partisan approach to the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty. To this end, the President should establish a special commission to investigate the causes of agricultural dislocation and suggest possible solutions to the farmer's economic difficulties. Formed of agronomists, economists, political scientists, and representatives of labor, management and farm groups, such a commission would be empowered to evaluate methods of agricultural production and distribution in the light of the nation's long-term needs...