Word: smugness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speaking at the plenary session of the International Socialist Conference in the flag-hung Folkets Hus, Phillips said: "It is high time Socialists stopped nagging the Americans and denouncing them as capitalists ... At present, most European governments are less progressive than the Truman Administration . . . We must not be too smug about European traditions . . . Between the two world wars, America reacted to the world crisis [with] Roosevelt and the New Deal, while Europe produced Hitler and Mussolini...
...book will make few happy except for the staunch supporters of the Father; to most other Roman Catholics it will probably appear smug and complacent...
...member of a resistance group that opposed our participation in Hitler's war of aggression. For our anti-war propaganda we used, among other things, postcard reproductions of cartoons showing various pieces of war machinery in the shape of grotesque monsters. There was an immensely smug bomber chased by a ferocious little fighter, a dinosaur-like gun, a radio imp, and others...
Early this year the Bonn government shoved through a law restoring the old caste system, its provisions guaranteed to keep the snug, smug bureaucrat happy. Samples: civil servants may not be dismissed for incompetence; vacancies need not be made public and opened to competition. The Allied High Commissioners, in vetoing the new law, reminded Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of his promise last November "to liberalize the structure of government and to exclude authoritarianism," insisted that he produce a more democratic civil service...
...cure for dangerous ideas is not (as the Communists think) suppression. But neither is it the smug Western pretense that ideas do not matter much, anyhow...