Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing was certain. The U.S. people had not won. They could reckon their losses in simple arithmetic...
...This bleeding newspaper says another 300,000 Germans killed on the Russian front. I've counted up all the Germans killed in Russia and I reckon there's only two of them left. Love a duck, what do they think...
What John L. Lewis didn't reckon with, was the force of public opinion. This time might be different...
...TIME pays a rightful tribute to the mighty leader of a mighty people. . . . Never was seen a more inspiring example of a people infused with the power of an idea. The power of this idea is the one thing that the master mind of the master race did not reckon with; and it is the one thing that can lick...
...when it did, calculated to stun and sicken the people by outraging the season that stands for a symbol of peace, to wreak the maximum psychological havoc by undoing a time so beloved and gracious, unleashed emotions with which both the friends and enemies of democracy will have to reckon in the future. There was a telephone call to a Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed bastards from now on." In Phoenix: "How many of the yellow...