Word: timidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other lands have adopted V for Victory, but we should adopt VV for Vicarious Victory. The following formula may bring it, if the traditional luck of fools is granted also to the timid...
...know, bluntly, why Britain did not get right into the ring where the Bear's hug was tying up Hitler. Some of them, remembering Winston Churchill's responsibility for the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of World War I, wondered whether that memory could possibly be making their leader timid...
...People are a little terrified at going into an art gallery. They feel that they are surrounded by professionals who make them timid. But no one has ever had an inferiority complex about going into a department store...
...answer your interesting letter . . . and to say most emphatically that TIME should not go into the business of feeding a lot of pap to Latin Americans. They know plenty about our faults and it is absurd to try to cover these faults for the sake of a few timid people at home...
Whether or not the Presidential order will really plug all these loopholes depends on how it is administered. To be 100% effective, its administrator would need power to make drastic and speedy decisions in every question of international finance that arose, without any advice from timid souls in the State Department. State's point of view was represented in the current orders by the tender treatment of Spain and Russia as compared to Italy and Germany, and by the fact that Japan was not mentioned at all. If & when the President sets up a ministry of economic warfare...