Word: readjusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole was less concerned with the immediate future of civil liberties than with the immediate future of the U. S. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The whole shape of the world . . . has been destroyed before our eyes, and it has proved all but impossible to readjust our whole system of ideas and attitudes to the new reality which now confronts us . . . . There is an American case, worth arguing for, worth fighting for and worth dying for." Just dawning on the Western Hemisphere was the suspicion that Nazi Germany, like Communist Russia, was engaged in a world revolution...