Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Sun summed up: "Mr. Truman earnestly wishes to be a good and faithful servant of the people. But to be an effective servant today means giving great leadership. How can the people see clearly if there is little vision in the White House...
...Power of Attack. In this worsening weather, a fog of national policy had been settling ever since V-J day and now obscured all vision...
...years, through hope and despair, Chiang had led China's national revolution. For him, and for China, it had not been an easy revolution, nor a polite one. Now again the vision was bright. Chiang's China stood within sight of its destiny: one mind, one goal...
Sergeant Jacob D. Deshazer's Hornet-based B-25 bombed Nagoya in 1942 and then got lost in the mists of the China coast. Deshazer chuted down and was taken prisoner by the Japs. As he lay hungry, in solitary confinement, Sergeant Deshazer had a vision. A forgiving God spoke to him in the words of the Sermon on the Mount: Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good unto them that hate you, and pray for them which do spitefully use you, and persecute...
...Catman, Bullet Man, The Human Torch, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel, Black Terror, Blue Beetle, Green Lama, Yankee Boy, Bogey Man-which follow the Superman pattern of a 'hero' who overcomes all obstacles with machine-like precision. Often, victory comes from frankly preternatural powers . . . propulsion and X-ray vision: these heroes' bull necks are often a pretty fair index of their intellectual prowess...