Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impress the young man and woman with a sense of responsibility to the national society. ... If it were simply taken for granted as part of our educational scheme that every man devote a year of his life directly to the nation, not only would we keep ourselves in fair national physical condition but we would have presented our people with at least one common experience, one duty common to all. From the rich playboy to the sweating coal miner, each man would have this one tiny hook on which to hang a personal understanding of the other man. At present...
Scrambling hurriedly to clear its decks for world charter discussion, the Senate was stopped in its tracks last week by an ancient mutineer: the filibustering Southerner. Mississippi's jug-eared, sawed-off Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo held the floor. His target: the Fair Employment Practices Commission. His weapons: racial and religious hatreds...
...give each party a fair whack at radio time, BBC (in agreement with Parliament politicos) had allotted ten airings of 30 minutes each to Conservatives and Laborites, four airings to Liberals. By U.S. standards this added up to no radio campaign at all, but to those who like their politics straight, it made good sense...
...three years he was away. C.R. made a fair share of A.T.C.'s globe-girdling history. As an Air Forces colonel, he mapped many of A.T.C.'s new routes, located and developed many of its airdromes. He retired as a major general with a chestful of medals received for achievements ranging from eliminating custom duties in North Africa to rescue work in Burma...
...carelessly, as they did in the golden world': with tennis and cricket ... dances . . . supper picnics beside the river, return on the ebb with laughter [and] soft choruses muted to a twilight mood and to the rhythm of oars that dipped into pools of phosphorescence [with the] young and fair moving in bevies and clusters on a green lawn in frocks of sprigged muslin . . . wide floral hats . . . sunshades of all bright colors . . . scarves that lift or float in a light breeze as they meet, part, draw together again...