Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Besides the body there is the mind. There are some to whom the idea of harboring a louse is so repellent as to unhinge the mind. . . . [Louse] control is perhaps the worst of all; for it depends upon inspections which ... are so undignified that no man would willingly submit to them, nor would any in his normal mind conduct them excepting as a duty...
...bashi-bazouks. A mere 2,500,000 Finns cannot naturally dream of a successful revolt, but we, all of us Russian citizens, must think of the dishonor that burdens us. We are still such slaves ourselves that we can be employed to reduce other nations to slavery. We still submit to a Government that crushes us with the cruelty of the hangman and that uses Russian soldiers to destroy the liberty of others...
...thinking is also the art of believing, because no human being at the present stage of civilization could safely call all his individual and social beliefs into question again or submit them to his conscience...
...brought to a close and that the "Jewish national homeland" promised by Great Britain in 1917 was squelched. In Arab Jaffa there was singing and dancing in the streets. In Jewish Tel Aviv there were prayers and parades through the streets with banners reading "WE WON'T SUBMIT!" and "DOWN WITH MACDONALD!" Meanwhile, the Palestine Jewish Agency called the restrictions a "concession to Arab political claims," said that the Jewish people "will not submit to the conversion of the Jewish national home into a ghetto." In the U. S., Zionists were going to kick to President Roosevelt...
What he did submit was a 20-year new deal for the West Indies. If the British Exchequer were as big as little Scot MacDonald's heart he would put every blackamoor in the islands on Easy Street. But all he could expect to get from a war-pressed Parliament was $4,000,000 a year, to be spent for West Indian education, slum clearance, land settlement, labor departments. On all British colonies, Mr. MacDonald proposed to spend $20,000,000 a year for ten years. In addition to their specific allotment, the West Indies may share in this...