Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That is not the way to make democracy work and prove itself in the greatest test to which it has ever been subjected. To fail to inform the people, waiting for them to lead him, is not democracy but demagogy. To act as if the people had to be manipulated is to deny the very virtues on which rests the hope of democracy; it is to think that free men will shrink from the truth and flinch in their duty...
...extraordinary tradition in the Serb Army is for cadets to shut themselves in their messroom, turn out the lights, draw revolvers, and shoot it out. Dusan Simovitch, who passed this test of courage with flying colors, must have felt in much the same position last week. Now he hoped- as did the Greeks and British to the east-to prove that the point at which Blitzkrieg can fail in mountainous country is the second phase: consolidation...
...June the winter wheat crops will begin moving over the Western and Southwestern roads. If the crop movement and diversion of shipping coincide, U. S. railroads will meet their first big test of ability to handle enlarged defense needs with present equipment (see p. 81). In the meantime, most of the carriers are rushing belatedly to buy more rolling stock. Since Jan. 1, Atchison has ordered 1,700 freight cars; Burlington, 2,175; Southern Pacific...
...litmus paper test for Mort...
That afternoon, after the wedding, David Roberts is killed in an aeroplane test. It transpires that nearly all these people had apotheosized him as lover or as hero. As a false god he is colossal. After his death they weave in and out of their routine of like automatons, for the carried with him to his grave all dreams of passion satisfied or triumphant youth. Then, bit by bit, information drifts in of his indecencies, his commonness, and his betrayal of them...