Word: vigilante
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The performance lasts some 15 minutes, perhaps half an hour if the noontime gallery is crowded, with Senator Reynolds on his feet several times, as a vigilant guardian of North Carolina's interests, to ask unanimous consent to insert a North Carolina editorial in the Congressional Record. (No Senator...
Then a change came o'er the spirit of his dream, and made itself felt in his speeches. From confidently predicting Axis victory he fell to talking gloomily of a six-or seven-year war to the death, then (last May) to calling for peace. The invasion and cleanup...
Democracy, says Hook in effect, is possible if the general social tendency and the event-makers (if any) favor it. A democratic state must follow the leader, but should also be vigilant against his autocratic tendencies. Like Burnham, Hook recognizes the persistent power of the elite. But he thinks that...
For almost three years the State Department and the Admiral had been a finger-snap away from the brief act of violence in which the U.S. would take over Martinique. By cunning diplomacy on each side, by inexhaustibly ingenious tactics, the relations were prolonged again & again & again. Each time editors...
"Vigilant and vocal public opinion in the U.S. and Britain may force further liberalizing moves. But if the people are fooled into accepting the form for the substance, and if North Africa loses its primary importance for the U.S. and Britain as a war theater, then the extreme Right [i.e...