Word: lightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surely what we need these days is dignity in talking about our common problems, and courage in combating the latent prejudices which wake to life at the lightest touch. We can appreciate the psychology of those men, who in smoldering resentment at what appeared to them to be continual discrimination talked wildly and loosely. But we must also know the reactions of those other men who do have visceral sensations at the presence of fellow students not entirely like themselves in background and behavior...
...possibly equal the Allied and Associated blunders of peace. The Nation which wrecked a continent and endangered civilization has been handled gently. As the attention of the Allies, France excepted, turned from clinching victory to solving domestic difficulties the treaty turned from steel to gelatine, yielding at the lightest touch of a Prussian finger. There were some stern remonstrances, some fierce threats. But in the end there has not been much but talk, and precious moments when peace and righteous vengeance might have been insured have been lost...