Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victorian era, and we entered upon the dawn of the 20th in high hope . . . Little did we guess that what has been called the Century of the Common Man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries put together. . . We took it almost for granted that science would confer continual boons and blessings upon us ... In the name of ordered but unceasing progress we saluted the Age of Democracy ... It was to ... tasks of social reform and social insurance that we addressed ourselves . . . The name of Lloyd George...
...these organizations, the danger exists that man, though the society at large may be democratic, will become a voiceless cipher. As Erwin Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, put it, 20th Century man faces in his organizations "an internal kind of totalitarianism...
...technical side of production may seem easy, it is enormously difficult to the larger part of the world. Throughout Asia, Africa and large parts of Latin America, production and living standards are dangerously lower than in the U.S. and Western Europe. As India's Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar put it during M.I.T.'s panel on "The Problem of Underdeveloped Areas": "Here are great areas that can fall victim to communism, for what better material for communism is there than people who cannot even sustain themselves...
...Industrialist Charles Allen Thomas (Monsanto Chemical Co.) put it: "Education . . . has gone from training for living to training to make a living." The University of California's Professor Frederic Lilge carried the analysis further into American life: "The common ground on which we may meet for mutual pleasure and understanding is narrowed . . . Instead of being plowed deeply and continuously by the art of good talk, it is planted with the purchased flowers of jokes and stories from the Reader's Digest, with radio and video...
...Then Marshall aid started, and black was put on the list. We've never had to worry since. Regular as clockwork the trucks have arrived, loaded with bags of black. The machines have kept...