Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Candidate Warren stated the issue of the 1948 campaign in a nutshell: "Is the present national Administration displaying the unity, the competence and the leadership to warrant extending its tenure to 20 years? Or has the time come for better housekeeping methods that can only be supplied by new leadership and a new broom...
...Tulsa's Coliseum, he answered Harry Truman's declaration of war: "Such a threat can prove only . . . that the incumbent Administration is a shambles; that it is dispirited, chaotic, quarrelsome and desperate . . . The Democratic Party, and its splinters, present to the people of the U.S. in this national campaign a sorry spectacle of warring factions, city machines, rebellious elements, pressure minorities, fellow travelers and left-wingers...
Lieut. General Curtis LeMay, Air Force chief in Europe, had called for a special 24-hour effort. The entire load was to be coal, to be distributed as an Air Force birthday present to families with two or more children in the Western sectors of Berlin...
...taking to simple, bluff, hearty plunder," and their "propensity for endless aggressive warfare." There is no use, it insists, in Britons assuming a cloak of false modesty about these many talents. "These are very necessary traits . . . nowadays, not at all to be apologized for." In the world's present state, "there is nothing more dangerous than the current cant phrase, 'We must gather together all the peace-loving nations.' Unless the peace-loving nations can induce one or two war-loving nations to join the club, it is simply an invitation to be plundered. The larger...
...says the Times, "or perish. There is no middle way. The structure is too tall, too boldly conceived to be dismantled arch by arch and beam after beam. It must stand or crash . . . The English at present are sleeping as a sailor sleeps after a storm, cast up on the beach, in the sun. But in their dreams they know . . . they will have to rise and go forth . . . One of the great epics of the world is to be played out before us, and played...