Word: toile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus begins, says Miss Mead, the typical American race for success. Success, not class, she insists, is the American standard of a man's value, rooted deeply in the Puritan belief that toil and struggle are the proper works of man. "In his parents' every gesture, the child learns that although they want to love him very much . . . they are not quite sure that he will deserve it, that when they check him up against the baby book and the neighbors' baby, he will come out A-1 and so worthy of complete, blind love...
...Washington, placed a heavy bet on the U.S. Seated beneath a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Minister Soong declared that the U.S. was building "a great army, a tough army, an army that will be unbeatable. I came away from the United States with the distinct impression that uphill toil is now over. I left Washington with a feeling of restrained optimism. One is struck by the tremendous efforts exerted by the American people...
...climb the high hill near the airdrome just up the road and watch the bombers and fighters go forth . . . can see his countrymen building with blood, sweat and toil the firm resolution that their sons shall not die under bombs, but shall have peace, because they will know how to preserve peace. ... It is stirring to see this change in attitude. It makes the dust all right, the flies all right, the heat all right...
...bring the salute of the armed forces of the U.S. to Brazilian comrades at the moment when your danger is our danger; and as we share in the toil of war, we shall share in the victory...
...Mediterranean shipping. Tobruk became known as the "milk run" to R.A.F. pilots who made regular, daily visits. Meanwhile U.S. service troops-mechanics, technical experts, supply specialists, laborers, trainers-slaved away steadily in Africa to build posts for U.S. combat troops on the way. As a relief to stretches of toil, they toughened themselves on the sand...