Word: spawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of our foreign policy needs to shuck the attitude that America Equals Perfection, it is psychological warfare. Aimed as it is at people who hate us for out autos and out skyscrapers, it can gain only envy if it pursues this tactic. In its attempts to spawn anti-Communism, psychological warfare tackles a most difficult enigma in human relations: conversion. and converters, from St. Paul onward, could testify that their job is hopeless unless they can tie their doctrine to ideas of those they influence. Catholic missionaries in China paint their cherubs with yellow skins, Communist propaganda plays...
A.C.D., as he pleases to be called, is the spawn of the man who created Sherlock Holmes, but where Holmes loved the world and its evils as a fit battleground for his mind, A.C.D. despises it. He set out to seek peace and returned with an account of a war that puts human efforts to shame--that of nature in the altogether...
...Republicans who had left Chicago a week and a half before. Said he: "For almost a week, pompous phrases marched over this landscape in search of an idea, and the only idea they found was that the two great decades of progress [under the Democratic Party] were the misbegotten spawn of bungling, corruption, socialism, mismanagement, waste and worse. They captured, tied and dragged that ragged idea in here and furiously beat it to death . . . But we Democrats were not the only victims here. First [the Republicans] slaughtered each other and then they went after us. And the same vocabulary...
...Civil War tax was collected from about 250,000 people in a population of 39 million. The tax, which had been voted for a limited period, was dropped in 1872. After the Civil War, U.S. capitalism began to spawn millionaires, and millionaires begot mass envy and a burning sense of social injustice. The eyes of Southerners and Westerners saw hundreds of cigar-smoking millionaires swarming like cuttlefish around New York and Newport harbors. This contrast tells the story: in 1843, there were only 20 millionaires in the whole U.S. In 1909, the 92 members of the U.S. Senate included...
...profane bystanders, it seemed rather like St. George welcoming the Dragon's spawn, or offering to exorcise them with coals of fire. By last week, 22 cadets had applied-at a possible cost to Mr. X of more than $30,000 a year. Meanwhile, other campuses were hinting that they too might consider the cadets. Among them: Michigan State College ("They're still all wonderful fellows in my book," said Coach Biggie Munn), the University of Colorado, Pennsylvania State College, West Virginia University, and the University of Miami, where eight cadets have already applied...