Word: thought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge you that if the defendants did no more than pur sue peaceful studies and discussions or teaching and advocacy in the realm of ideas you must acquit them . . . Do not be led astray by talk about thought control, or putting books on trial. No such issues are before you here. "But no one could suppose nor is it the law that any person has an absolute and unbridled right to say or to write and to publish whatever he chooses under any and all circumstances...
...Spike" Blandy, unlike Ofstie, thought that strategic bombing had had "a marked effect" on Germany's production and mo rale, and conceded that "some" of the Air Force's 6-363 would probably get through and hit their targets. But, he added, "the probable results do not appear to me to be sufficiently promising to justify eliminating any essential forces from other services...
...there is nothing there"; "a pusillanimous little man who sees ghosts at night"; "the A.F.L. has no head-its neck just grew up and haired over." Furthermore, rumbled old John L., Philip Murray was "innocuous, feeble and namby-pamby," and guilty of "cringing toadyism." For his part, Philip Murray thought (and said only last week) that Green was "an old Fally-doodle...
...church clock finish out its little four-phrase tune, and then ring twice. That for the kickoff. The next swallow was easier. He reached a glass out of the bookcase, filled it half-full, and gulped it down. This was better, and he repeated the process. Then he thought of the tickets in his pocket. Vag paused for a moment, watching a leaf spiral down past his window, then ran for the closet and grabbed his coat. He sprinted down the stairs and started across the quad, running easily, with the bottle carefully cradled in one hand. It could have...
...their departure did not completely heal the Advocate's internal rift. There were still dissentients who thought that the magazine had a way to go before it was cleared of "artiness...