Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter to a grocer, a mechanic's to his Soviet counterpart, and so on. Brief mention of the campaign in the Farm Journal & Farmer's Wife brought thousands of cheerful notes from U.S. farmers' wives, letters full of feeling for the good earth, and of high regard for Russian peasants...
Another time, when the peace referendum issue was before Congress, May knew a direct question would net zero results (the President tries never to discuss legislation in process). She asked: "Mr. President, do you regard a peace referendum as consonant with a representative form of government?" To neither question did she get an answer. To the last she got a question: did she stay up all night thinking it up? Answered May: "I did." May Craig got into newspapering in 1923 by helping her late husband Don Craig (then Washington reporter for the old New York Herald) with a sideline...
This attitude indicates that we still unconsciously regard war as a sort of game. We do a lot of talking about total war, but are shocked when the Japanese take that conception somewhat more seriously than we do. People become righteously indignant at some new horror of war, but will tolerate with comparative complacency any of the horrors to which they have become accustomed...
...reaction of the global strategists when he said: The experiment is well worth trying, so long as other measures are not excluded. Although this was a qualified statement, it may be assumed that the allocation to the European air campaign in the European theater had been made with due regard to "other measures...
...American male, says Cohn, really dislikes women because 1) he was dominated by them in childhood and early youth, 2) "he vaguely suspects that they regard men as suckers," 3 ) he resents their stepping off their pedestals and competing with him in the vulgar world of offices and cocktail bars. Emotionally adolescent, eager to be mothered by his wife, the husband's place in the family is often that of an elder son. This status is encouraged by the women's press. "When a man weeps at the movies," drools the Ladies' Home Journal, "it means...