Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beast. . . . We face an unbelievable horror. If rage shakes us let us take care that it is not futile. We who stay at home cannot take it out in direct action. . . . Let this anger be expressed in work, in sacrifice, in gratitude and in honor toward those who bear the burden. This is how we can beat Japan. This is how we can destroy the beast...
...longer be admitted that the tiniest little state should have a right of absolute veto and be given the privilege of dictating to great nations, if only in a negative way, what their course of action should be. In any universal organization ... a few great countries will have to bear the burden of carrying out the ultimate decisions. . . . Common men & women will have scant sympathy for those politicians who, for lack of selfdiscipline, give loud utterance to their dark doubts and sinister suspicions. . . . Any attempt to disseminate distrust among those great nations, any appeal to national prejudice, to old jealousies...
...good will and men with schemes to push pondered last week the riddle of the bear that walks like a man. From the wintry fastness of the Russian plain, the bear had reached out to gash a friend. Moscow's Pravda, highest official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, detonated a seven-day wonder by accusing British "personalities" (or "officials": translations varied) of talking peace with Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
After a week of turmoil no one was prepared to say straight out why the semi-Asiatic, often inscrutable bear had lifted a warning lip at the lion. Guesses were a dime a dozen, but few fitted the known facts. Practically no one believed that Moscow had merely played another card in the complex game of Poland's postwar frontiers. Pravda's bad-mannered belch clearly had some deep but hidden bearing on inter-Allied relations for war & peace...
Sergeant Camille Gagnon, a French-Canadian ex-butcher, lay for 14 hours on the frozen ground, between counterattacking Germans and his comrades on a newly taken hill. His warnings enabled the Canadians to repulse a dozen counterattacks. Then the Germans brought an 88-mm. field gun to bear on Gagnon. Feeling safe, the Germans attacked the hill again. Gagnon, still whole, shouted another warning. The Germans quit trying...