Word: national
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housing act to press a reform which Congress did not specify in passing the act. The loudest outcries came from builders and bankers in the South, and in New York and New Jersey. Even housing officials sympathetic to its sociological aims wondered: Would the new rule endanger the nation's healthy building boom...
These last two items led to the invasion of the hall by Carrie Nation, an axe-wielding prohibitionist. During the noon meal on November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery, where visitors came to "watch the animals eat", and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison." When she headed down the stairs with her nickel-plated hatchets, students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars, which she struck to the floor with indignation. When an uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders...
...nation which dropped on the citizens of Japan the devastating atomic bomb makes itself ridiculous when it hesitates at any means of assuring the peoples under the yoke of our potential enemies that we have no quarrel with them...
Flanders stressed the importance of a strong air force but insisted that it would be a grave error for this nation to engage the Soviets in an armament race. Such a venture would be a "costly and destructive defensive operation...
Flanders suggested the possibility of dropping propaganda leaflets through the air. "A nation like ours, which resigned itself to, and practiced the mass murder of civilians by aerial bombing in the last years of the war, need not be fussily hesitant about trying something new in the interests of peace...