Word: sloth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materializing into anything more than hot air. While Congressmen investigate and Speaker Martin announces that there is no danger of starvation, U.S. business counts its dollars, the termites of Fascism and Communism eat into the crumbling remains of European freedom. The price we may have to pay for our sloth and half-hearted ness will make the billions spent in the last war look like the proceeds of a piggy-bank raid...
...Sloth & Violence. If the U.S. plan of operations worked the independence and integrity of Greece would be saved. But the U.S., as it assumed more & more of its world responsibilities, would have to learn to operate in the wide area of political action between the extreme of isolation and the other extreme of counting up atomic bombs. London's Economist advised...
...Americans will find no responsibility in Greece. They must take what there is with them. They will find no policy in Greece save a mixture of sloth and violence. They must create the policy. They will get little support from either side, for both are extremists. They must create their own moderates. They must expect dislike, ingratitude, and double-dealing...
...Giant sloth, thought to have been extinct...
Destruction is no new thing: our remote ancestors faced destruction from pride, envy, anger, hate, sloth, gluttony, lust, famine, pestilence and violence-just as we do. A cavalier attitude toward personal improvement usually results in personal deterioration...