Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy figured that he could mass-produce aircraft parts out of his odd-sized reject sheets by fitting them around the blemishes as a careful dressmaker fits a pattern to precious fabric. He also saw how to eliminate most of the usual waste and delay on scrap aluminum: his parts factory would be right next door to his ingot mill, where the scrap could be remelted and poured right back into more production...
...call upon our fellow Christians, while striving for right and justice, to reject all desire for vengeance; to seek God's forgiveness for any hatred we may harbor; and, without shrinking from the harshest duty imposed upon us by our consciences under God, to remain ever mindful that He alone may say, 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay...
...Board lurched successfully through the minefield of the week, voting to reject demands for a general wage increase for 220,000 workers in eight West Coast aircraft plants. But the margin of success was narrow (the vote was 7-to-5). Thus far the Board had not jettisoned its heavy cargo, the wage-raise yardstick (15% increases to cover the rise in living costs to May 1942), but all around the angry waters of inflation were lashed ever higher by labor's big winds...
...quite apart from a swinging of the pendulum, such as educators have seen so often in the past, I cannot imagine that this republic could reject the tradition of the liberal arts. For a judicious blending of the study of man and nature is the only sure foundation of a free commonwealth...
...Germans to this desire the United Nations must understand Germany. To understand Germany they must reject the oversimple notion that Germany is incorrigibly militaristic, unalterably bent on domination. Dorothy Thompson analyzes Germany as two-sided, two-minded, schizophrenic. Says she: "The world is sick and tired of German wars that are apparently fought by Germany partly for the purpose of determining through them what the German destiny may be. ... We are all heartily sick of suffering with her. If the German mind cannot make itself up, then we must make it up for her, by force...