Word: well-meant
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...Term IV inauguration on Jan. 20. It would not be too soon. During the past fortnight, a clamor of criticism against U.S. diplomacy has swelled into an outraged chorus. Its theme: the U.S. has been following a wavering diplomatic course with its allies, now burning its fingers with well-meant advice, now dusting its hands of Europe's problems...
Mexico's railroads, always insufficient, have been bedeviled by politics, have frequently broken down. In 1938 President Lázaro Cárdenas handed their management over to the railroad workers' unions. This well-meant gesture turned out as badly as might have been expected. Strikes continued, wrecks increased, efficiency declined...
Many pages of well-meant Student Council recommendations and much summer committee work have failed to make the Freshman class a coherent group. House unity has pretty much taken care of itself, but the vastly more important matter of class integration has been snowed under by meandering committees and lack of cooperation among the Housemasters. The task before the Houses and the Student Council is not so much that of promoting friendships among the entries, but rather of enabling Freshmen to get to know men outside their entries. Classes come and go with rapid succession today, and the Freshman...
Americans who have listened through radio's well-meant, sometimes brilliant but often talky, overdone, and unrealistic attempt to propagandize the war since Dec. 7 had something to stand up and cheer for last week: The Army Hour. A brand-new, 60-minute Sunday afternoon show put on by the U.S. Army, it had the welcome ring of authenticity...
...wisdom grooving his bright young talents; her dubious reward in seeing him (John Shepperd), long after, become a U.S. Presidential candidate. There is also the teacher's furtive romance with the manual training teacher (John Payne), and their painful discovery of how sadistically the community minds their well-meant morals...