Word: loathe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...walls. When one job is finished, expert workmen are laid off until the same job comes along on another ship. With shipyards booming along both coasts and the Gulf, laid-off workmen (about 8,000 a month out of 160,000 now employed in the industry) have been loath to wait, frequently have moved to other yards. The purpose of the Washington conference was to stop delays...
...statement the President had recalled his acceptance speech at Chicago: "I shall not have the time or the inclination to engage in any purely political debate. But I shall never be loath to call the attention of the nation to deliberate or unwitting falsifications of fact." Now he said there had been systematic falsifications, not unwitting but deliberate; that he had decided to tell the people what these falsities were; that the Democratic National Committee would pay his expenses. The President had eased himself out of the dilemma that always confronts a candidate in office, the dilemma that had embarrassed...
They have, too, not been loath to consider tinkering with the industrial structure facing them so coldly and discouragingly. This receptivity to change has characterized not only trade-union youth but college youths as well. Again unlike Germany--where university attendance was largely restricted to an upper caste, and students were accordingly conservative in their economic attitudes, American students--thanks to increasing scholarships and free education--represent many class backgrounds and are accordingly more familiar with the injustices of industrial society...
...person to give it his smiling benediction, and no one doubted that it was primarily his doing. By it Germany broke through British-French "encirclement," freed herself from the necessity of fighting on two fronts at the same time. Without the Russian pact, German generals would certainly have been loath to go into military action. With it, World War II began...