Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some commentators, notably Walter Lippmann, were still debating which of several strategies the Allies would employ against the Jap. But it now became clear that all possible strategies could be used, all routes to Tokyo could be traversed. Said the conference's sole communiqué: the "barbarians of the Pacific" will be destroyed...
...York Times's Louis Stark wrote this week: "The WLB will not be the sole judge of the issues . . . because the problem is more political, or perhaps just as political, a question as it is an economic one. And in politics the President has the last...
Isaac Gilman, born in Russia, started peddling papers in the U.S. when he was 19. At 43 he bought an interest in a paper mill at Fitzdale, Vt. Five years later he was sole owner. The hamlet grew from four houses to a thriving, modern community of 1,100. In gratitude, it changed its name from Fitzdale to Gilman. Wages in the mills were high and there was never any labor trouble. Owner Gilman kept them running full time during depression, called his workers by their first names, took an interest in their personal affairs, footed many a doctor...
...despite his new humility, Poet Auden does not lay sole blame for the blunders of contemporary thought on the artist and creative thinker. For the plain people clamor at the artist's door, promising him devotion and rich rewards if he will only distract them from the harshness of life by painting it in magic colors and assuring them that their idle dreams and nostalgia are true and good. They cry: "Carry me back, Master, to the cathedral town where the canons run through the water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled...
...visualize India today, it is one vast prison containing 400 million souls. You are its sole custodian. Government prisons are prisons within this prison. I agree with you that whilst you hold the views expressed in your letter under reply, the proper place for one like me is a Government prison. And unless there is a change of heart, view and policy on the part of Government, I am quite content to remain your prisoner...