Word: deeper
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...real battle must first be won in Europe. So strongly was he bent on early U.S. invasion of the European continent that he once irascibly proposed that the U.S. move its war to the Pacific if Churchill delayed the invasion any longer. In 1945, Henry Stimson wrestled with a deeper problem. Should the U.S. drop the atom bomb on Japan? It should, he advised Harry Truman, in order "to end the war in victory with the least possible cost of [American] lives." His judgment in this would long be argued, on the grounds that Japan was already near to collapse...
Nothing Violent. Some of the Addams humor is relatively mild, e.g., the picnic that is invaded by man-sized ants, the cannibal who murmurs his excuse for not eating: "Oh, I like missionary, all right, but missionary doesn't like me." In some of the others, a deeper flavor of misanthropy seeps through. In one cartoon of this sort, a nurse is simply pushing a pram which is fitted with thick steel bars in front of-whatever is inside. In another, as a man is carried away in the talons of a great bird, his wife runs after...
Whether or not this piece of evidence ought to be advanced in opposition to Mr. West's thesis, I would hesitate to say. It may be simply that the student had a deeper insight into the mysteries of our economic system than many experts on the subject...
...more than $6 billion a year. That would leave $5 billion to be gathered from broadened excise taxes, or from a federal sales tax-all of which would result in the highest levies in U.S. history. Congress might not stand for that, might decide instead to go deeper into debt (national debt today: $256 billion). While kicking in the highest taxes since V-J day, U.S. citizens would thus still have to watch the national debt (and their long-term liability for taxes) rise . . . and rise . . . and rise...
...finance committee-who joined him to build the business and to expand it into the fields of peace. Shortly before World War I, E. I. du Pont de Nemours, like Baron, was found in violation of the antitrust laws and split into three separate companies. The parallels go deeper. The Barons is largely the story of Stuart. His divorce, which rocked Susquehanna society, his long and tragic attempt to marry his third cousin, Philippa, his law suit and feud with his family over disposal of Raoul's 40,000 shares of Baron common that forced...