Word: roiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody's Happy. Most of Amerika's clear, simple stories are told in terms of "average Americans," avoid controversial personalities and political issues that might roil the Kremlin-or Congress. Not long after Amerika had stirred up such a storm on Capitol Hill by suggesting that the Midwest was poor and drought-stricken, slim, brunette Editor Marion Sanders, 43, took over. Since then, Amerika has provoked no senatorial tempers. Welles-ley-educated Mrs. Sanders is a doctor's wife and mother of two college-age youngsters. She knows no Russian and has never visited the U.S.S.R.; Moscow...
Ironically, Gandhi himself, who has spent a lifetime trying to direct the waters into disciplined channels, had helped to roil his people into turbulence. What he had called the "dumb, toiling, semi-starving millions," who revered (and sometimes worshiped) Gandhi, could understand him when he cried for their freedom; they could not always understand him when he told them they must not use violence to win that freedom. "To inculcate perfect discipline and nonviolence among 400,000,000," he once said, "is no joke...
...order that the fear that precedes action may not become overpowering, the psychologists offer six aids: 1) do something-fight fear with work; 2) keep in sight of other men-just the presence of others minimizes fear; 3) call the roil to reassure the soldier that others are doing their part; 4) keep men informed of what is going on-"the known is never so fearful as the unknown"; 5) control the signs of fear; panicky men must be removed from the sight of others; 6) even statistics help-"the chances that any one man will be among those mortally...