Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers generally take it for granted that writers like to write. It is perhaps also generally assumed that after a little practice they find writing easy. The fact is that most writers find their work desperately difficult, no matter how long they have been at it, and regard the whole literary process as one part pleasure and nine parts drudgery...
...that is not the point of view of the Soviet leaders. They regard themselves as custodians of the future of the world. In their opinion, everything is going their way; as leaders of a socialist state with a Communist goal, they regard themselves as the advance agents of manifest destiny. In Poland* and the Balkans they believe that they are helping manifest destiny along, although the resistance is terrific from the "unenlightened," who are in a vast majority...
...England is concerned," declared Prime Minister Eamon de Valera last week before the whole Dail assembled, "it is a matter that everybody must regard as wonderful the way in which the British are denying themselves to see that more supplies will be available in Europe...
...cool, rural peace of Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains last week some 500 labor union delegates and labor economists listened thoughtfully to two men whom most unionists regard as caustic critics...
...shek's mind. His bigger, better-equipped armies might score quick victories if they were unleashed. The reactionary clique within the Kuomintang clamored: "If [General Marshall] would only let us at the Communists we could clean them out in three to six months." (U.S. officers in China regard this estimate as optimistic...