Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acheson went on, if there is any doubt about what to do, you don't take the most extreme action first. If you have a little flurry on the border somewhere, you don't take a sledge hammer to kill a fly. You take what action is necessary, and it may be something short of force. The Japanese attack on the gunboat Panay in 1937 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 were good examples. Both were armed attacks; one called for response by armed force and the other...
...country is not planning to make war against anyone ... It does not hold war to be inevitable . . . [But] if we should be confronted again with a calculated armed attack such as we have twice seen in the 20th Century, I should not suppose that we would decide that any action other than the use of armed force would be effective, either as an exercise of the right of self-defense or as necessary to restore the peace and security of the North Atlantic area...
Durable Species. The coalition was not a development of the civil-rights fight. It was an old alliance which began developing during Franklin Roosevelt's second term. It fought a rearguard action against the New Deal. It would not be a hard & fast combination; there would be regroupings within it and shifts back to the Administration side...
...ringers and pamphlet carriers crowded into Rome's shiny, modern Cinema Metropolitan, hoarsely chanting the name of Luigi Gedda. Finally, a brawny, firm-jawed man rose from his seat in the first row and brusquely acknowledged the cheers. He was the chief strategist of Italy's Catholic Action movement; he had just led his followers to a notable victory...
Commenting on the action of the University of California, which recently harred Laski from making two scheduled speeches, Brown said that the Law Forum was "fundamentally opposed" to the western college's policy if that policy was based on purely political grounds...