Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many ways this is a revolutionary book. It sets forth the basis of genuine idealism in practical terms. It uses the lessons of the past not to tear down everything we have thought, but to build up a new and bigger vision of the world. We must grasp these ideas, says Lorwin, if we are going to revitalize democracy and make it the dominant creed of the coming...
...moving, the Negroes planned to celebrate. But there was no celebration. It was stolen from them along with their rights as American citizens. Standing four square to prevent them from taking over the project were over six hundred angry, hostile whites backed by a riot squad armed with tear gas, clubs, and guns--the same weapons that so fondly are coddled by fascist thugs for similar occasions...
...picture, but another Negro smacked him down in the snow. Young Negroes cracked up concrete blocks into pieces of nice throwing size. Bricks felled a cop, hit a white woman. Negroes tried to drive one truck through the line. The white men swarmed forward. Mounted cops had to use tear gas. A score were carried to the hospital, more than 100 were hustled off to jail...
Tired by 50 minutes of sustained, effort, the Crimson began to show the signs of wear and tear, and in the final 10 minutes the better conditioned Elis had little trouble in jumping the puck twice for easy goals
Cunningham and his ilk represent the tear-it-down school of superficial journalism. We can have no victory without some sort of positive program for the future. To beat the Japanese and destroy the Nazis is not enough in itself, because once we have done that we shall be back in 1919 again. Another generation of nationalistic hypocrisy and steam-roller aggression may be inconceivable to some, but that's what we're in for unless a better solution than the last is worked out and put into practice. Not only do we have to produce enough planes, tanks...