Word: profession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy, the collapse in France, the Red horror in Spain, now happily crushed but at fearful cost, for the present plight of England, for Hitler's regime in Germany as a counteroffensive and for the economic misery, confusion and breakdown in our own country. Hitlerism, which you profess to hate, was created as a defense mechanism against your hidden bosses...
...speakers were non-Catholics. Many Catholic conservatives, including some in his new archdiocese, have warred on C.I.O. -but he has backed it from its birth. Most Catholic prelates in the U. S. are isolationists-but Emmet Lucey says: "Isolation is a spiritual, cultural and industrial impossibility. To profess neutrality in the face of international crime is to deny the existence of a moral order. Unprovoked aggression in starting a war and barbaric savagery in conducting it constitute murder and injustice. These do not admit of neutrality." Young for an archbishop (he was 50 last fortnight), Emmet Lucey's appointment...
...things which the sleepy British intelligence service does profess to know is that Germany has vast stores of ammunition, explosives and other vital material tucked away in her wooded hills. Last week the R. A. F. got its orders to go after those stores ruthlessly...
...need for a good rendition of the symphony, as there has been heretofore nothing but Stokowski's old Victor album, full of the cheapest kind of distortion and the most cloying saccharinity. Rodzinski plays the symphony with verve, but straightforwardly. He brings out not the sobbing emotionalism which people profess to find in Tchaikowski, but the wonderful melodic flow, the freedom of motion, and the unfailing dramatic sense. If, as someone told me, the original soundtrack of the recording was speeded up for the first movement, it is all to the good, for the speeding-up tends to unify...
...make peace; it was hard to do it even in the last weeks of the World War. But it is impossible to get it when we are not even trying. It is impossible to get it when our retreat from strict neutrality has angered both sides, one because we profess moral sympathy but balk at active aid, the other because we sit behind a Neutrality Act hurling curses and threats. It is impossible to get it when we have given up hope and resorted to a huge program of preparedness...