Word: treating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very critically minded as far as the Soviet Union is concerned. As long as the Russians think it is right to conquer a neighbor's territory, such as Karelia [once Finnish], but do not permit Germany to make conquests, I cannot collaborate with them. One cannot treat the matter as if nothing has happened, and I'll have nothing to do with the Soviet Union...
...fault lies not with the top military command. The Chief of Staff conceived a sound program for giving the best soldier in the world the treatment demanded to preserve the American qualities that make him the best soldier. Its essence was to treat the soldier with respect as an individual...
...think it matters a hoot." The Quiet Life. During the 1920s Webster was a member in good standing of that ultra-American generation of writers and actors and cartoonists and illustrators which focused around the offices of the World and The Players and The Dutch Treat Clubs. He has long since receded to the blander pleasures of upper-middle-class suburbia in Stamford, Conn, and -with a mild sheepishness about the stylish address, and sincere enough murmurs about the Websters' susceptibility to colds- winters in Palm Beach. For years the Websters were enthusiastic theatergoers; now they wonder whether anything...
...people everywhere are unusually kind. . . . They treat you like a child. The girls who run the busses always take me in hand and see that I get off at the right place. Imagine the treatment a foreigner would get from New York busmen or policemen...
...horror if they knew how "Our Boys" conduct themselves, with such complete callousness in human relationships, over here. The few of us who try to behave like normal human beings to friend and ex-foe alike are told time & again, "But you can't be an American-they treat us as if we were dogs or slaves...