Word: spurns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes a vacation in Florida, where she is wooed by a valve manufacturer, a playboy and a fatuous young leftist-one of those self-righteous kibitzers who continually feels obliged to tell other people exactly what is wrong with them and with society. He wins the girl, only to spurn her in order to become a sort of wandering heart-of-the-world...
...Century, means to carry on, too. "This is not our war," said he, "it is not a war for saving civilization, but is itself the destruction of civilization." Quakers remained men of peace at any price. Some Mennonites perhaps did not yet know a war was going on: they spurn newspapers, magazines, radios...