Word: squirms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary to poke around beneath the facts and to emerge with some dubious interpretations. It is necessary to attribute to Mr. Greene the most blatant sort of insincerity. At the very least, it requires imputing to him a certain amount of unconscious hypocrisy--an over-readiness to squirm out of a previous decision in Mr. Browder's favor. Only by reading between the lines can the bogey of suppression be conjured...
Pius also made Nazis squirm on the subject of Poland: "The blood of countless human beings, even noncombatants, raises a piteous dirge over a nation such as our dear Poland, which, for its fidelity to the church, for its services in the defense of Christian civilization, written in indelible characters in the annals of history, has a right to the generous and brotherly sympathy of the whole world, while it awaits . . . the hour of a resurrection in harmony with the principles of justice and true peace...
...crops looked good in autumn 1939 -all except the political. On the sprouting, tenderly nursed Presidential boomlets set out for 1940 flowering, an unseasonable frost had settled. But hopeful U. S. politicos still tried last week to squirm up into the sun of publicity...
Immediately, indefatigable Henry Wallace called a conference. All through the South, the sheepish growers wondered what their ransom was going to be. North Carolina's big, handsome Commissioner of Agriculture William Kerr Scott suggested sadistically that the markets be reopened, the farmers left to squirm. Henry Wallace announced in an AAA pamphlet: ". . . It would not be sound to undertake price-supporting measures for the 1939 crop unless farmers indicate a desire to regulate marketings for the 1940 crop." Warehousemen held meetings, shouted for crop control, promised to use their influence on the farmers...
...must be admitted that American Communist leaders are a rather clever lot. Otherwise they could never--even to their own satisfaction--have squared Soviet Russia's recent actions with their traditional attitude. Perhaps they did squirm a bit at the outset. But with time and some amazing intellectual acrobatics, they were able to produce an explanation--a proof of the logic and inevitability and complete orthodoxy of the whole business...