Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political crisis since 1911. British progressives have their first real domestic issue of the war, are determined to press it, and are solidly supported by the people. The Tory M.P.'s and their "two hundred percent fit" leader can either pass the Beveridge Plan and outrage their consciences, or reject it and anger their constituents...
...applauded Mrs. Miniver, which critics hailed as "a touching document of democratic courage." Swiss censorship banned Goebbels' weekly Das Reich because it printed a distasteful caricature of President Roosevelt. The Volksrecht answered Nazi Press Chief Dietrich's charge that Switzerland was giving up "spiritual neutrality": "We reject spiritual eunuchry. Away with mental castration which goes by the name of spiritual neutrality! Statesmen of great powers should have learned by now that neither love nor liking can be ordered...
...those who assert that during war our thoughts should be of nothing beyond military victory and that the Christian virtues should be laid aside and dependence placed upon primitive emotions. The demand that Christians thus choose between Christ and State is one that can be and must be rejected. To reject it involves no disloyalty to State, for what we are seeking for the American people is nothing that will prove a weakness. Our purpose is that the American people be filled with a righteous faith and sense of mission in the world...
...Easier Nachtrichten: "The time has come for our government to reject all attempts at intimidation, unambiguously and energetically...
...lives yearly, which in itself should be enough to its name. Even with the great medical advance of the past hundred years still this State has an infant death rate of 40 per 1000 births. This figure and countless inherited diseases could be cut down if blind politicians would reject their medieval views and let medical progress benefit all of the people. Innocent people do not make a strong democracy, nor does democracy grow in the dark...