Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . But through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men, still unafraid...
...effects. It can shatter a nation into violent factions whose simple noise and passion give them fleeting leadership over the uniformed mass, till the state is like a tightrope walker who stands still and violently waves his arms until he falls. Or war can increase the depth of vision and willingness of a people to compromise so that they move forward poised and alert, responding (as a whole) slightly but sufficiently to each threat against their balance...
Wallace and Perkins became devoted friends. They threw boomerangs on early morning walks along the Potomac, conferred daily at their offices. Perkins had the tough executive ability that Wallace lacked. Wallace had the long-range vision that drew Perkins' first bashful letter...
...first time around the long table of the U.S. Cabinet in the White House. President Roosevelt treated the members to a long review of Pacific fighting since Dec. 7. What some of the gentlemen said when they came out did not suggest that they had been fired by a vision of immediate and total concentration on Pacific warfare...
...dreamboat design put out by Industrial Stylist George W. Walker of Detroit. He went all the way, streamlined his ship like an airplane, put his main battery in mushroom turrets, massed bridge and stack into a bulletlike island alongside a launching deck for aircraft. It was another vision. But no man could reasonably say that the battleship of 1955 might not have more than a passing resemblance to the dreamboat Walker...