Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slaughter grew too great. After weeks of soul searching and delay, the Allies decided to bomb and to shell the abbey. They followed a Dec. 29, 1943 order of General Dwight Eisenhower: "We are fighting in a country . . . rich in monuments which illustrate the growth of the civilization which is ours. We are bound to respect those monuments so far as war allows. If we have to choose between destroying a famous building and sacrificing our own men, then our men's lives count infinitely more, and the buildings must...
...after five months of wrangling, weaseling and soul-searching, Congress was back at the beginning. If the veto held, Congress could start writing a new, deeper-digging bill−or Congress could stand pat for no new taxes...
...sense, every novel creates a little world of its own. In that sense The Lost Weekend is a world inhabited by only one soul, and that one damned. The story tells of five days in the life of Don Birnam, a clever coward who is drinking himself to death...
...conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus, and as he came to the final "I am the captain of my soul" his voice dropped to the stentorian stage whisper of the ancient ham actor. As he trudged up the aisle to his seat, with the conscious humility of a great performer, the House rose and gave him prolonged applause...
...White Mind. "America is continuously struggling for its soul. . . . The American . . . is strongly and sincerely 'against sin,' even, and not least, his own sins. He investigates his faults, puts them on record, and shouts them from the housetops, adding the most severe recriminations against himself. . . . Americans accuse themselves, and are accused by others, of being materialists. But they are equally extreme in the other direction. . . . This young nation is the least cynical of all nations...