Word: realist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant record in fighting the Germans, General Patton is now being smeared on every front page because he retained certain Nazis in political office. I know that there is no one with a more cordial hatred for the Germans than General Patton, but he is also a realist and a practical man. He has always used the means at hand to do his job as quickly and expeditiously as possible. And retaining a few Nazis in key position was a case of using the means at hand...
Ideally, the Report holds, graduates of our schools "would have been readied to conduct their own education throughout the rest of their lives for themselves." "Education is primarily self-teaching. But no realist will question that, as things are, relatively few adults left to their own devices will...
...think I liked you better, Nicholas," said the Muse of History, "when you were only a weakling Tsar. You are becoming a realist...
Meanwhile, President-elect Arévalo, a realist, had sent a mission to Washington in search of the Lend-Lease arms reported to have been promised to his predecessor. Dictator Federico Ponce. The mission, which traveled by plane, was surrounded by as many cloud banks of secrecy as a Big Three meeting. Some members swooped out of the clouds long enough to be recognized in Chicago. Others, supposed to be in Washington, had gone officially underground...
First War. The Golden Rooms is the second volume of Vardis Fisher's imaginative reconstruction of primitive human life. First: Darkness and the Deep. The work of an Idaho-born realist whose straightforward, unadorned stories of Mormon farm life were too bitter for many readers, The Golden Rooms is so different from his earlier books (Toilers of the Hills, In Tragic Life) that it might be the work of a different writer. They were heavily written, with occasional inspired passages. The Golden Rooms is simple, skillful, steadily interesting...