Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing to propose right now," he conceded, "to resolve the problem of achieving free collective bargaining with the assurance that there will be no work stoppages. The truth of the business is that...
Despite temporary regressions and stagnation, the history of man has displayed a constant upward spiral. Some day the human race will awaken to the glorious truth, first expressed by Confucius, that "the kingdom of heaven is within you," and that deeds are the vital thing-not belief...
...truth is that the President and his Republican backers are less concerned with the need of the Greek people for food than with the need of the American Navy for oil. The plan to contain Communism is second to that need...
This statement was a bit on the optimistic side, but it seemed to point up an important (though generally disputed) truth: the danger of war has not much to do with good or ill feeling between nations. For example, the chance of war-within-five-years between the U.S. and Russia was probably greatest during the era of good feeling in 1944-45, when the U.S. was making concessions which, if extended as the Russians tried to extend them, would have placed Europe and North China in Soviet hands. If the U.S. had waked up to confront Soviet power...
...Benedict teaches us another truth often proclaimed, seldom practiced today -that human labor is not something ignoble . . . but a thing that should be loved as something worthy and welcome. The life of work, whether in fields or workshops or intellectual occupations, does not degrade but ennobles men . . . turns them not into slaves but masters and molders of substances surrounding them. . . . Hence all ... must consider that they are serving not only themselves but also the existence and well-being of the whole of civilized society . . . that they work not through compulsion but from love...