Word: readier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passage of years, said Barth, had made him "definitely milder-in fact, more peaceable and readier to see that, after all, one is in the same boat with one's opponents . . . To say 'yes' came to seem more important than to say 'no' . . . Theologically, the message of God's grace came to seem more urgent than the message of God's law, wrath, accusation and judgment...
...first the opposition to Jewish immigration came only from a few Arab leaders and freebooters. But today, if those leaders gave the word, it would find a readier response among the mass of Arabs. On the eve of World War II, Britain yielded to Arab demands, limited immigration into Palestine to 75,000 more Jews, sharply restricted the sale of land to Jews...
...anecdotes and behind-the-scenes yarns. Butcher was at the General's elbow much of the time ("he wanted . . . an old friend around to whom he could talk eye to eye"), ran errands for him, played bridge with him, sometimes shared the same room. No one else had readier access to Eisenhower or a better backstage view of what was going...
...Tories favored the bill.* Laborites, Liberals, Independents damned it as a device of big property owners. Said paunchy, practical Laborite Lewis Silkin: "This bill abandons any possibility of national planning." Cried Socialist Captain John Dugdale: "The landlords are readier to sacrifice their sons than their property." Replied Tory Lady Astor: "God help you. That is a most repellent point of view...
Last week the men of Vichy gave the impression that they were readier to crumble than to conquer. The querulous, totalitarian old figurehead, Marshal Petain, quavered in a letter to President Roosevelt: "It is with stupor and sadness that I learned tonight of the aggression of your troops. ... It is you [who] have taken such a cruel initiative...