Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shooting means war. In a democratic country the will of a majority of the people to fight is necessary before war can be declared, and only 17 per cent (yesterday's Gallup figures again) are in favor of entering an armed conflict. Once a war has been declared a totalitarian form of government is necessary in any country, but the United States is still at peace and four out of five Americans are in favor of staying there...
...standard of honesty, since this lad was literally driven from the Academy by the treatment accorded him by Midshipmen and Faculty members alike. Naval Academy action is of a piece with Navy policy which restricts Negro enlistments to mess attendants only, and illustrates perfectly hypocrisy of war-cry against totalitarian cruelties while practising same doctrines here in America. Of course Harvard should have refused to play. (signed) Roy Wilkins, Assistant Secretary, N.A.A.C.P...
...nation that believes in the spirit of democracy to run the risk of antagonizing subjugated democracies in other parts of the world. If any way can be found to send food to these countries, there is a better chance that faith in democracy will persist in spite of totalitarian oppression, and that democratic morale will be strengthened...
Words of woe came from the totalitarian front. Although the Italian press buried the news of the bill's passage, it began an anti-U.S. campaign which increased in intensity as the days went by. "Roosevelt's gesture," pontificated Virginio Gayda, "which means open intervention in the war against the Axis, may in the end put into motion the functions of the Tripartite Pact and cause many unpleasant surprises to England and the United States in the Pacific." Echoed La Tribuna: "Soon Japan will say her word...
...dictionary contains many a recent coinage (e.g., "Blitzkrieg: warfare in which the offensive is extremely rapid, violent, and hard to resist; totalitarian: of or having to do with a government controlled by one political group that permits no other political groups"). But youths found that in some respects their dictionary shortchanges them. Conspicuously missing are such well-rooted youthful words as jitterbug, jive...