Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were an American, Republican talks of economy by reducing the expenses for the armed forces would make me extremely unhappy, for the economy might prove a costly one. It was tragic enough that the boys whose fathers were World War I veterans did have to fight another horrible war. Let not history repeat itself! Amen...
MacVeagh shared the Greek Government's exile after the Nazi conquest and (promoted to ambassador) shared in its tragic return. His reports, once prized for their wit, have recently been soberly serious. A philosophic democrat, MacVeagh has seen Greece, which gave the word democracy to the world, sick from within and under assault from without. To cure the inward sickness, MacVeagh holds emphatically, in his quiet voice and brilliantly phrased dispatches, that the U.S. must move in and virtually run the country to make its aid effective. Yet, with Byron, he has "dreamed that Greece might still be free...
...Alexandria, Madrid, Vienna sink back, and do not rise again. ... It may be that the darkness of great tragedy will bring to a quick end the short, bright history of the United States -for there is enough truth in the dream of the New World to make the action tragic. The United States is called before the rehearsals are completed. Its strength and promise have not been matured by the wisdom of time and suffering. And the summons is for nothing less than the leadership of the world, for that or nothing. If it is reasonable to expect failure, that...
...dollars that will accompany it. The success of this program in future years will depend in large measure on the intentions demonstrated by the present group seeking overseas education. By neglecting their scholastic objectives in favor of more bohemian ones, they can quickly transform a good thing into a tragic free-for-all, to the disadvantage of both French universities and well-intentioned students. Only the earnest need apply...
...this has become the American Century whose sole vital activity--even to the point of war consists in preventing it from becoming the Russian. With faith in the United Nations, for whose creation we are so largely responsible, the United States can not only help to solve the present tragic dilemma of the Greek people, but to revive the guttering hopes of the peoples of the world that America stands for peace on the mutual understanding between all nations...