Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I wandered up, a crowd encircled me. One bespectacled youth poked a pugnacious finger in my collar and said: 'Will you tell your American friends that we reject the plans of murderer Truman and American imperialists to start another war so they can use cheap soldiers of India to crush Soviet democracy?' Breathlessly he spun out the usual cliches, and wound up: 'Nehru is a Fascist reactionary who smokes cigarettes with Churchill and offers British warmongers the sweet mangoes and sweet tongues of India...
...Europe, "I found nothing but friendliness and good will for the workers and progressives in America." But "I found no liking for the Marshall Plan among the common people. I found ... a feeling in Europe that some people on Wall Street are trying to dream up a war." Furthermore, Robeson told reporters: "Everything I said during my tour of Europe was distorted by ... American press agencies. I prefer to give what I have to say to papers like the Daily Worker." Later in the week, still pestered by newsmen at the wedding of his son, Paul Jr., to Marilyn Greenberg...
Fortnight ago, ruddy, moon-faced Professor Barrois came out, in the first of two articles for the biweekly Presbyterian Life, with some plainer talk. In the first installment, called "Where We Stand Together," he is as mild and tactful as ever. He concedes that "we Protestants are not at war with Rome. We do not believe, for instance, that Catholics are 'idolaters,' or that the Mass is 'for sale.' And Catholics do not regard us necessarily as religious anarchists who do not bother about the Ten Commandments . . . Catholics and Protestants both believe," he says...
Congress made no educational provision at all for nine-year-old Grafton Dulany Hanson, the first Capitol page, who was appointed during Jackson's Administration by both Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. After the Civil War, a bewhiskered, one-armed tyrant, remembered only as "Captain White," was enthroned over the pages. Captain White had a singular outlook on education: martial spirit, he felt, was everything. So he marched the pages around & around the House cloakrooms in close-order drill until they were dead tired and fighting mad.* After Captain White's time, a loose system of private tutoring...
...every seven deaths in the U.S. Dr. Rhoads also heads the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, whose 14 stories rise beside the hospital. In this tower of hope, the world's most ambitious cancer research laboratory, highly specialized scientists and technicians experiment endlessly in the war against cancer; from it have come strange new treatments that have, so far, kept many leukemic children alive...