Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world we knew, señores, is a casualty of the war. In the past, without strength of arms, we pushed the notion of sacred sovereignty as far as it would go. We had to do that, because only by asserting our moral inviolability as sovereign states could we build a moral defense against the Colossus of the North...
...targets. In Washington last week,* the command's good-looking, serious, young (38) chief, Major General Curtis E. LeMay, explained: "We have destroyed the five largest cities in Japan and any one of these would be a major disaster. We have done this with less than half the strength we will have in the Pacific. We have the capacity to devastate Japan and we will do so if she does not surrender. Missions of 1,000 planes will come before long. ... In a few months we will be running out of targets...
...President had also found strength and counsel in other Roosevelt holdovers. Speechwriter Sam Rosenman had been persuaded to stay, at least for another year. Owlish Judge Vinson, the Economic Stabilizer, was now top adviser on domestic affairs. Jimmy Byrnes, working on a special project at his Spartanburg (S.C.) home, was still on deck: he would go along to the forthcoming Big Three meeting. And, to the consternation of all red-blooded anti-New Dealers, Harry Truman had even kept smart Dave Niles as a Presidential assistant...
...Access ... by all foreigners is now difficult; it will require but little more to render it impracticable. . . . Secrecy and mystery characterize everything. Nothing is made public that is worth knowing. You will find no two individuals agreeing on the strength of the army & navy, on the amount of the public debt or the annual revenue. In my opinion it is not intended by the Government that these things should be known...
Strong egos should be built in childhood, but failing that, "practically any person can learn how to develop ego strength at any period in life. . . . * It is frequently a long and painful process, but it can be done. To assist the individual in attaining this goal is the work of the psychiatrist, and in the above concept lies the germ of the prevention and also the treatment of alcoholism...