Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross. At the same time, he is terribly aware that his future depends on the unpredictable actions of Major General Hershey and Congressman Vinson of Georgia and, of course, Premier Joseph Stalin. No, this is not a beginning to crow about, hardly a start to the supposedly leisurely, satisfying process of learning...
...public life which is mostly beyond the law." At least part of the reason is the current preoccupation with things that are "New"-"the New Order, the New Freedom . . . the New Deal, the New Religion . . . several New Foreign Policies and certainly a lot of New Taxes." In the process, the U.S. is forgetting some of the "Old Virtues"-the virtues "of religious faith . . . of integrity and the whole truth . . . of incorruptible service and honor in public office . . . of economy in government, of self-reliance and thrift...
Attempting to cure addicts, the committee noted realistically, is a fearfully discouraging process. It involves "a painful and bewildering perplexity of treatment entailing difficult physical and psychological readjustment"; many a victim who has undergone treatment lapses into addiction again at the first temptation. The only real solution is to cut off drug supplies before innocents are victimized. Among the committee's recommendations...
...means being ready to let the world see you as the fool whom God sees, whenever a suitable occasion arises. And it is humiliating to think how much of our unpublished thought process is devoted to doing just the opposite-trying to put ourselves in the right, to mask our ignorances, to explain away our failures, to pretend that the gaffe meant something else. Oh, we laugh at ourselves in private, that costs us nothing. We even amuse our friends, and cultivate a reputation for modesty, by dwelling on the record of our own discomfitures-afterwards, when...
...would have to finance cotton growers, wound up owning four banks, 10,000 acres of cottonland. In partnership with Anderson, Clayton & Co., worldwide U.S. cotton brokers, they built two big cottonseed mills. When they found they had a surplus of cottonseed oil, they built a vegetable-shortening plant to process...