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...peace or of war, and under many leaders, has always pursued with determination the policy that truth can come only from the minds of men who are free. He comes to us as a man who dared to assume the leadership of his country at a moment of dire peril and yet to tell his countrymen that all he had to offer them was, "blood, and sweat and tears.": as one whose unfailing courage and optimism has never wavered, because be knows the worth of that freedom for which he is fighting; and as one who has sworn eternal hostility...
Civilians in dire frustration...
...castigate farmers who hoard their grain for higher prices, the Kansas City Grain Market Review last week turned to the Bible, dug up a dire admonition: "He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessings shall be upon the head of him that selleth it." (Proverbs...
...glorified piano player, the dictation of his Autobiography. " Every character he ever wrote about, including Joan of Arc," says Ferguson, "was either drawn from the intensive experience of his first thirty years or conceived in its spirit." Ferguson is an apostle of solid sense, has no time for the "dire Freudian symbolism...
...progress of puppetry is not yet a dire threat to Free China. The Jap still clings to his ancient arrogance; to the bulk of China's masses he is still a "monkey thief." But the danger is serious...