Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel - "a scientific anatomy of pain, not a tepid caricature of misery." Teppe warns his disciples to shun society. Because nobody dares utter the complete truth, which is too cruel for people to withstand, "every conversation is a lie." Excitement too must be avoided ("enthusiasm is our enemy"). The biggest disillusionment of all is love. Says Teppe : "Love should be inevitable, preordained; it should happen to elective affinities, two people meant for each...
...utter inadequacy of U.S. military intelligence...
...sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
...unimaginable distances. To Wordsworthians, Wordsworth at his best is the greatest English practitioner, after Milton, of that literary form to which Matthew Arnold gave the classic definition: "Now poetry is nothing less than the most perfect speech of man, that in which he comes nearest to being able to utter the truth...
...damn his own people in compliant agreement with the incalculable hatred that they have kindled . . . that too would hardly befit one of German origin. For anyone who was born a German does have something in common with German destiny and German guilt. . . . The truths that one tries to utter about one's people can only be the product of self-examination...