Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fist fight with Mississippi's Governor in a Jackson hotel (TIME, May 13), wrote: "Genial, kindly, softspoken, lovable Joe Dale! If the community he so long and ably served . . . does not come to his rescue in this grave crisis of his life, then its people are utterly devoid of any sense of human gratitude. And if they don't do it, Joe, here's telling you the brethren of the Mississippi press will certainly do so, even if there are no men of worldly wealth among them...
...Obscure and insignificant as I am, I am doubtless conveying what practically every one of the 16 million Filipinos are saying, and would say, if allowed the chance to explode their hearts' content. These 16 million suntanned Brownies are not a specimen of a species hypothesized to be devoid of the psychology-discovered instinct of self-preservation. And in this world of Blitzkriegs; of Hurricanes and Spitfires and Junkers, and Panzer Divisions; of $5,000,000,000 defense programs and ''hemispheric defense"; of "China Incidents," and of "New Orders in Greater Asia,"-the instinct...
...magnificent country Canada is. He regards himself as a radical, fearless sage, who cannot be appealed to on the grounds of patriotism, who sees that the British Empire is a ball-and-chain rather than an ideal. But he has no right to make sweeping statements which are wholly devoid of truth, and then to claim that he speaks on behalf of other young Canadians...
...read the whole thing through at a stretch, you get the impression toward the end of "having heard this before." Nevertheless, individually and collectively, the articles are forthright, readable, and well-informed. Moreover they are devoid of the bull-headedness which unsympathetic persons have been went to associate with the words "Student Union...
...your sake, devoid of bitterness...