Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise to join the Axis. The two men said: We shall tell Regent Prince Paul what you say. Herr Hitler said: I should like Yugoslavia's assurance that she will do nothing if Germany invades Bulgaria and attacks Greece; I might like permission to send troops across Yugoslav soil to Greece; when I have won the war, I might give Yugoslavia Salonika and Northern Albania. The two said: We shall tell Prince Paul. Then they went home and told Prince Paul...
...Weber, in spite of the fact that he was the first U. S. modernist, and is still going strong, is bearish on the whole issue. Says he: "Modern art is a barren field whose soil needs spiritual humus to turn it over for the planting of new seeds...
...Southerners of whatever degree were likely to be built," Cash selects not the aristocrat but the "backcountry pioneer farmer," the descendant not of English squires but of "half-wild Scotch and Irish clansmen." This countryman's outstanding trait was his lack of complexity. A direct product of the soil, he was "as simple a type as Western civilization has produced in modern times." To that intense simplicity, Cash assigns several Southern traits: individualism, puerility, a tendency to violence, romanticism, hedonism, piety, a passionate love of rhetoric and of politics...
...best is as genuine a courtesy as the world can show; his rural individualism was sharpened into a violent sense of personal Honor. In some Southern types the result was "a great cleanness and decency . . . one of the most pleasant things that ever grew up on American soil." But under the political and moral pressure of the Yankee this sense of honor became incandescent and ran wild. The passion for rhetoric came to a boil; the Fire-Eater went to Washington (and has never left it); Jehovah became a tribal God and the South His last great bulwark; the Civil...
...years the South, in attempting to in dustrialize, pulled itself up by its own boot straps. Absentee land ownership and tenant farming perpetuated the ruinous one-crop system and discouraged the diversification of agriculture which the South needs to save its soil and feed its own people. Lack of industrialization denied its people a chance to learn industrial skills, and lack of trained workmen hampered industrialization...