Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Utter astonishment could not describe my feelings when I read the tirade let loose by a Washington minister at two men who contributed such a large part in the defeat of our enemies. He would "damn to hell" these men; he would call down the wrath of God on these men were he a medieval priest; he would put in torment their souls for their base, utter disregard of all the principles of humanity. . . . Who is he? This minister might just as well damn every Air Corps officer, every bombardier, every flame-throwing private, every machine gunner and every rifleman...
...long silence of worship which began the Meeting, Quaker Patriarch Rufus M. Jones, 83, rose to utter words which must have echoed in the meditations of the many who heard him: "I am thrilled with a sense of joy at something triumphant that has happened toward the end of my long life. . . . My heart is filled with thanksgiving and high rejoicing that we are met as we have met, completely in one spirit, under one Father, as brothers and sisters...
...assigned to the belief, widespread in the '30's, that the new experiment in the land of the Czars would not work, or, alternatively, if it did work, that the people and government would be so vitiated that they could never again become a first class power. The utter fallacy of this belief seeped slowly into the world of academic planning, and it was not until December of 1944--six months before the Soviet Army marched into Berlin--that the idea of an area study that would include Russia was broached to the Committee on Education Policy of the Faculty...
...annual basis, was aligned with that of the Army and Navy so that no great difference existed. On the face of it, an Ordinary Seaman figuring up a pay-off of $1500 for a six months trip might cause a member of the Naval Armed Guard to utter some unholy things about his own $76 or $92 monthly draw. But members of the Armed Forces and the public at large rarely stop to compute the full income tax that merchant seamen must pay, vacation or furlough money that these seamen must supply for themselves, and family allotments that civilian seamen...
Probably at least one of the tunnels would be big enough to handle a full-sized super-rocket, testing 1) its reactions on its roaring rise through the atmosphere; 2) its flight through empty space, where utter cold makes many metals lose their strength; 3) its meteor plunge to earth, heated perhaps near incandescence by friction with denser...