Word: viewpoint
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General Arnold, who often chafes at the inscrutable workings of the Army mind, had wanted a fresh viewpoint when he hired Stearns & Co. He had got it, with something to spare...
Thus the American nations would go to San Francisco united only on the general principle that world organization is a good thing. The fundamental difference of viewpoint between the big-power U.S. and the small-power Latin American nations was not resolved. But mutual consideration had been shown-no one had been pushed around...
...likely to accept and appreciate Report on the Russians for what it is: an honest, highly personal account of how the Russians (whom he liked) and the Soviet system (which he disliked) looked to a seasoned newsman who has seen a lot of the world but kept the basic viewpoint of his native Kansas. Readers will also find the book (which corrects some errors in the Digest version) no less vivid and readable than Author White's best-selling Journey for Margaret, They Were Expendable, and Queens Die Proudly...
...country. . . ." In Boston, the usually aggressive Pilot was quite calm: "Read carefully, read very carefully, Mrs. Roosevelt's statement might pass muster. Possibly it's correct that we should encourage 'really good families,' rather than 'indiscriminate large families' . . . gauged solely from an economic viewpoint. [But] it is unpleasant to meet a sneer, however oblique and qualified, at 'families of twelve children.' And . . . it's irritating to meet a text so involved that it has to be read and re-read...
From the taxpayers' viewpoint it was about time. For no less than 13 years the City of Chicago had furnished two detectives, at the taxpayers' expense, to see that the little man came to no harm...