Word: qualm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...requirement of Christianity. They have a case. The spirit enjoined by the New Testament was plainly one of love and mercy. But surely it was a spirit that Jesus enjoined, not an iron rule. If keeping a rule involved worse evils than its breach, Jesus broke it without a qualm. . . . It is impossible to make Jesus out to be a consistent pacifist even in personal relations, let alone international relations...
...Grizodubova, "who has shot down one Nazi plane, was flying a month before the birth of her daughter and soon afterward she shot down another plane. ... I know girls so quiet and apparently timid that they blush when spoken to, yet they pilot bombers over Ger many without a qualm...
...this buying power sent department-store sales up 19% (over 1940) throughout the U. S. Prices continued creeping upward. Retailers and wholesalers bought ahead, piled up big inventories without a qualm...
...qualm or chilly premonitions visited the President last week, he gave no sign. Gone were the pallor and nervousness of last spring. He was ruddy, calm, self-confident. Some of his intimates whispered that even when he is alone, at night, in the history-haunted White House, even then Franklin Roosevelt feels not so much as a tingle of worry over the morrow...
Imports. U. S. importers from Japan were less complacent about last week's crisis. Most fearful were silk and hosiery mills. Their $100,000,000-a-year purchases from Japan survived the silk-stocking boycott of 1938 without a qualm. But the possibility of war was something else. For three weeks the mills have been laying in all the silk they could get. Last week they pushed the price (for future delivery) up 22? to $2.82½ a lb. U. S. Silk Importer Paolino Gerli called it "hysteria." He also forecast that by the end of November. U.S. silk...