Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Americans in China, being civilians in uniform, are ready to go home, and the hell with it. They believe that they accurately reflect public opinion at home...
...Chamber, the Attlee Government with its huge Labor majority had little to fear. The greater problems lay outside, and the debates would reflect them. Even as the session got under way, the Government had to rush troops home from the Continent to help unload food cargoes when 40,000 striking stevedores refused to work. Cried Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell, until lately an expert in parliamentary disorder: "I am a socialist, not an anarchist, and I want order and reason in our industrial relations...
Patton called the press in for a retake, blamed the whole thing on his unfortunate "analogies" and newspapers' "startling headlines." Then, chafing under his orders, he declared: 1) that what he had said should not "reflect on my commanding officer, General Eisenhower"; 2) that "so vile a thing as Naziism" could not be got rid of overnight. The net implication was that he was right the first time (when he had compared "this Nazi thing" to "a Democratic and Republican election fight...
Quebeckers, who as members of the French Canadian minority have a nodding acquaintance with intolerance, applauded Dr. Cannon. Many phoned the Cannons, or stopped them on the streets, to insist that what had happened did not reflect local feeling. A waiter in the hotel whispered to them: "I'm damned glad you won!" Said V Action Catholique: "The case . . . should be brought before the highest courts in the country...
...curriculum of the course, which is being adjusted continually to reflect changes in field operations, consists of classes in problems of surplus disposal, cost analysis, government problems in war adjustment. Navy and industrial termination problems, and Navy appropriation and store accounting. The course as a whole deals with problems of Navy and industrial organization, with the economic problems, of the transition period, the operation of government controls in the transition economy, and with government policies controlling the termination of industrial contracts and the reconversion of the country's industrial Organization...