Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's humblest men is New York's Frank Costello, who doesn't want anyone to think that he is as influential as everybody says he is. When California's Commission on Organized Crime recently identified him as the probable head of a nationwide slot-machine syndicate, the Tammany judgemaker wrote to Earl Warreri: "Governor, the truth is that I have so little influence . . . that I can't square a traffic ticket for myself...
...Another question is also asked. Is time on our side? This is not a question that can be answered except within strict limits. We have certainly not an unlimited period of time before a settlement should be achieved. The utmost vigilance should be practiced, but I do not think myself that violent or precipitate action should be taken now. War is not inevitable. The Germans have a wise saying, 'The trees do not grow up to the sky.' Often something happens to turn or mitigate the course of events...
Time to Sit. Up & down Europe there were variations of the Birmingham theme. London's Daily Mail shuddered to think what Britain would be like without ECAid: "Bread, cake and pastry supplies cut to half of what they are now. Butter, cheese and sugar rations down by one-third. No cotton goods in the shops. Footwear supplies drastically cut. Cigarette and tobacco supplies cut by 75%. New housing programs down by half . . . Private motoring cut ... to 40 miles a month or less...
...Hoffman saw a bold and hopeful prospect: "In order to build a united Europe, you first have to build Europeans. The European organizations that have been formed and that are at work now are building Europeans. For the first time in history, a body of men are beginning to think and plan and build together as Europeans and not as nationals of separate states. They are developing more and more the habit of working together, of looking at their problems as common European problems. They are getting in the habit of having their economic plans criticized, and of criticizing those...
...society depends on a right balance between monks and laymen-the revolution of the 14th Century took place because the monasteries were full of people ... who had no business there, and the present revolution is being made by people who ought to be in monasteries and are not. I think your book ought to prove potently suggestive to many of these...