Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this country came from the lips of ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith speaking before the Liberty League in New York Saturday night. With no trace of personal bitterness or ravings, but with fairness and in plain terms, did the nation's leading "conservative Democrat" call the administration to task for its neglected party pledges and its wanderings from the paths of constitutionality. An especial tribute to Mr. Smith's sincerity of purpose is the fact that the Liberty League, at first evidently affected by the dinner and convivial atmosphere, grew steadily less noisy and toward the end of his address...
...hankering sympathy for the Japanese because today they are a people with the virility and strength the White Race once showed in bursting into China, and establishing itself with special superior status in the "treaty ports." Not only does Editor Woodhead take many illustrious Chinese to task, but he relates a wealth of anecdotes. Of the humble Chinese family whose robber son was being strangled slowly by the local executioner, Imperialist Woodhead snorts...
...League's future. However, Hoare and Eden will not have an opportunity to cross each other's bows, for Eden will remain in charge of the Foreign Office while "Cleopatra" as Hoare is known to the House of Commons, will be placed in charge of the vital and difficult task of re-organizing and linking the armed forces of the Empire. It is virtually accepted in England that a colossal re-armament plan will soon be put under way and that the next budget will devote more to the Army, Navy and Air Services than has ever been voted before...
Dynamic forces are at work. The recent rioting of Alpine troops is a straw in the wind. The regular army never made a secret of the fact that it did not relish its task. More quiet cursing and derogation of Mussolini is heard in the streets of Rome, Milan and Salerno. The troops in the field are spread out, discontented, badly supported by communications, and strategically exposed to serious defeats. Any spark from a number of sources may kindle the flame, and there are as many gusts of sentiment ready to nourish...
...tutor, of course, or a tutor who did not understand his duties, might use his power as a threat, make himself a "task-master", and make the system for his tutees "a sort of pedagogical nursery." But there is no reason to suppose this would happen, any more than it happens now with the not insignificant power of tutors in borderline cases...