Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to set anyone thinking with no unconcern about what he is doing on this planet and why. It is very doubtful whether many Army nurses react to their dynamic surroundings in quite the way Bernice does, and it is a tribute to Miss Lawrence's personal charm and utter sincerity of portrayal that matters do not get unconvincing...
Sirs: At the rate the American people are descending into utter moral and mental degradation, under the New Deal, I wouldn't be surprised to see Roosevelt's speech to the teamsters placed side by side with the Gettysburg Address in our history books. Two comments I heard on it rate notice, I think. Said a lady, "I thought I was listening to the Great Gildersleeve running for the office of Mayor of Summerfield." Said a bewildered man: "I didn't know we had a canine vote...
Veteran correspondents aboard the Dewey train had never seen such a campaign. Those who had been on the fabled Willkie "crusade" of 1940 found this one very different. Four years ago they had clambered out from morning to night to hear the Willkie back-platform utterances, had ridden with the candidate through streets lined from curb to storefronts with cheering spectators. (The veterans also recalled the utter confusion of the Willkie campaign, and the blur it had left in the minds of voters...
...phrases such as "Battles are merely the flashing, seductive garments that hide the passionate but terrible whore's body of war"). But it carries the conviction of a man whose spirit has been tried by seven years' intimacy with war's "dumb, bestial suffering, weariness, and utter and devastating exhaustion...
...could not escape a certain feeling of admiration for the old man's courage in facing the end of his life work . . . nor could one escape a feeling of being stupefied at this utter refusal and inability to grasp the first principles of what is happening in the modern world and what the peoples of Europe want and require...