Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something inherently weak in our form of government and our way of life. They are always surprised when we don't just collapse. They think we will have a serious depression, and they will reap the result of our folly. If we can't get together and prevent that, some of what they say will perhaps be true. If we can prove we believe in our democracy as strongly as they do in their government, if we are willing to sacrifice as much as they are, they will respect every show of strength...
Correct dosage varies for each person, he explained. If a student takes just the right amount, benzedrine will prevent him from sleeping, but otherwise do no harm. If he takes a little too much, he will fall into a delusional or "euphoric" state, in which he does everything wrong without ever realizing...
...Threat. The commissioners were not panic-stricken; they were measured and matter-of-fact. But the U.S. was under definite threat, they said. They saw no hope that the United Nations would develop "in time" the authority to prevent another war. The threat, they reported, could be divided into two parts. The first was Phase I, which was the turbulent present, when the world at any moment could blunder into war. If war came in Phase I, it would come by accident, not from design. No potential enemy of the U.S. was yet prepared for war. The commissioners found...
...prevent such gains that the U.S. sent men and ships to the Mediterranean. Reluctantly, Washington faced the possibility that it might have to send more...
...Soviet Union. The Vatican, which claims to have been anti-capitalist even in evangelical times, when, to my knowledge, capitalism hadn't begun to exist, is now a strenuous defender of American imperialism. The Pope is hand in glove with Protestant Freemason Truman. Our immediate objective is to prevent formation of that bloc...