Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shiver in dutiful awe before the graves of Machiavelli and Galileo. Business is good and the city is well fed. But there are many different Florences. There is the Florence of only yesterday-of the anglicized local aristocracy which used to go fox hunting without foxes, mounted in pursuit of a butler who panted across the pine-plumed hillsides strewing a trail of paper scraps. That Florence is certainly gone...
...decades, U.S. women had been striving for what fashion writers called the "American Look." This called for a certain litheness, a casual jauntiness, a healthy complexion, broad shoulders and, above all, slim hips. In pursuit of such lean, athletic elegance, women zipped themselves into elastic girdles, consigned themselves mercilessly to seven-day diets, rolling machines, long walks and meditation over calorie charts. At the same time, they luxuriated in what was known as "freedom of movement"; no joke tickled female audiences quite so much as references to corsets and the Victorian practice of lacing...
...Right to Lie. Hocking would cut the moral props out from under the liars and strengthen the conviction of moral responsibility in the free press: "The right to be in error in the pursuit of truth does not include a moral right to be deliberately in error. . . . Since the claim to the rights of free speech and free press rests on duty of a man to his thought and to his social existence, when this duty is ignored or rejected-as it is rejected when the issuer is a liar, an editorial prostitute whose political judgments can be bought...
...never rejoined a political party after the war," he explains, "because I do not believe that this is a time for party lines. For two years, when I wasn't fighting the parties in the pursuit of their party interests, I was trying to get them to work together. Well, the Social Democrats won the election, and I, whom every man on the street here knows by sight, I lost my position as a city councilor. I have given up politics now until the Germans realize that only by working together can they rebuild this country...
Swallowing a regret that it should take place on a military level only, one can still examine with interest this approach to accord. The force suggested by the United States to the four other subscribing powers would consist of twenty divisions, 1250 bombers, 2250 pursuit planes, and a variegated complement of assault ships and cruisers. The total number of men involved might approach the million mark, but the force would in any event be large enough to "halt any conflict, though not too large to constitute too heavy a burden," as the French delegation reservedly...