Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Earl Browder (to Republicans & Democrats): "We will use our votes to undermine and defeat both...
...machine-gunner. At 38 he went to Spain to cover the civil war as a Leftist newspaperman. He had the face of a public-school don, but his heart was made of soldiering stuff. In spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla. At Jarama he led the puny British left wing's machine-gun crew through pitch night to a hill looking down on whole tribes of Moors. At dawn his guns nearly...
With respect to the enormous army that the United States is raising Professor Karpovich commented. "Once you've got it why not use it to further your own interests?" He emphasized that the main job on hand at present however, was preparedness...
...method Steel will use is to interview the inquiring student on his interests and, if he is unable to decide what the student should do, to give him aptitude tests. Having ascertained the field in which the applicant is most likely to be successful, Steele will supply him with data covering all its phases...
Whereas the Declaration, for example, seethes over British use of "merciless Indian Savages," Lamb remarks that 1) Americans first invited the Indians' aid in 1775, 2) Americans had won the tribes' enmity with endless swindles, 3) God-fearing Pennsylvanians had once offered a bounty for Indian scalps. Washington's dignity and Dr. Franklin's ingenuity inspired Lamb's admiration. But he detests the hypocrisy of Demagogue John Hancock and his shyster lawyer Sam Adams, the "moral obliquity" of Boston's pious, greedy merchants...