Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said to "love the Irish and the Jews." When John P. was taking the stump, what man or woman was there who could refuse to shout his campaign slogans: "Even Your Dog Loves John P. Wintergreen" and "John P. Wintergreen--The Flavor Lasts." Who could resist the onslaught of goose pimples when John mounted the platform and began to tell a nation of his dreams of "The Full Dinner Jacket...
...last week, knowing, as one said, that they had been living in a fool's paradise. Last winter when they put down the Communist strikes they showed that they did not want the Communists in power; but they were not willing to destroy what they were willing to resist. They even left Communists in many key positions. Last week, when France signed with other Western Europe nations a military pact whose sole purpose was protection against Communism, France still had a Communist, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, at the head of her atomic research. This dreamy escapism...
Triumphant Discussion. At Neosho, Mo., he couldn't resist giving the home folks a triumphant discussion of his travels. "I started out at Des Moines, at a plowing contest," said ex-Plowboy Harry Truman, "and there were just about ten acres of people in front of the stand where I spoke ... I went to Denver and there were 100,000 people . . . went on down the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and over to Salt Lake City...
...general he feels that "the great achievement of ERP has been reviving the will to resist totalitarianism, internally and externally. The fantasy of neutrality is non-existent, except in Sweden." He calls the record to date of the Office of European Economic Cooperation, the 16-nation joint agency, "perhaps the most incredible accomplishment in international economic cooperation ever-the dimensions of which, as a prelude to European unity, aren't appreciated here...
...contrary, we must have the boldness required to regard possible disaster with as much calmness as possible good fortune. . . we must resist the temptation to believe that because modern man can survey the present with miraculous case (thanks to modern methods of communication) he can therefore foresee the future more clearly than in other times...