Word: enlightenment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commented the New York Times: ". . . A familiar brand of double talk . . . Mao and his comrades have not bothered to enlighten the Chinese, or us, on what is democratic about a dictatorship or how those two antithetical words happened to get into one propaganda phrase...
...agree that the Spellman-Roosevelt controversy is extremely distasteful but only because a man of his stature would attempt, or rather condescend, to enlighten such an obvious publicity seeker...
Impossible of Solution. Meanwhile, for the delegates, there was still the problem of how to enlighten the world. In a 115-page report, Britain's neon-bright Biologist Julian Huxley told the delegates what had been done in this direction during his second year as director general. His report mentioned a "pilot project" in Nyasaland for the education of natives in literacy, health, agriculture and commu nity living. There had been a survey started on re-education in Germany, and the launching of an "Inquiry into the Tensions Affecting International Understanding," to find out why people...
...Enlighten me, kind sir, let my thirst for knowledge be quenched-what is this "ootch-magootch...
Only through research on dogs were the iron lung, the Strader splint, and insulin developed, continued the doctors. "Our main task now is to enlighten the public on the necessity for our painless animal operations," they stated...