Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together with the masses of semi-enserfed labor, much of it of Russian origin, to work them. In spite of the huge plebiscite vote of the eastern provinces in 1939 to adhere to Russia after the fall of Poland, the Polish nobles in exile have brought great pressure to bear upon General Sikorski which has resulted in the current lack of harmony in Polish-Soviet relations...
...this nation does not realize that isolationism and imperialism are one in then desire to pursue a selfish national immorality, to raise a Chinese Wall in a twentieth century world. If we are willing to alienate ourselves from the rest of the world, if we are willing to bear the double burden of the world's enmity and an enormous armament program--such a policy might purchase us a brief period of a precarious armed neutrality. Inexorably, however, World War III would come--and this time the United States would be alone against those very forces that such a policy...
...strain had become almost too much to bear, even the sympathetic bevy at the Vendome looked askance at the now bell-bottomed trousers of the hapless middles. But relief came at last as bales of shineless, creaseful trousers poured into the school; beaming faces flocked around the commissary, and departed, clutching madly at their proud new possessions...
...whole backed the Indian Government. British Tories were solidly anti-Gandhi. Labor Party leaders considered India as a sort of slum-clearance project for future consideration. Most Britons applauded, a New Delhi White Paper: "Only one answer can be given to the question as to who must bear responsibility for the mass uprisings and individual crimes which have disgraced and are still disgracing the fair name of India. That answer is-the Indian National Congress under the leadership of Mr. Gandhi...
Herbert disclaims any intention of being "narrowly and offensively British." But the Great Bear (which Americans "flippantly but sensibly call the Dipper") becomes Great Britain; its stars: Shakespeare, Caxton, Pitt, Johnson, Wren, Reynolds and Handel. Herbert gives Cassiopeia to the U.S. Says he: "I shall graciously permit the Americans to have some say . . . but I have put down Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Grant and Roosevelt (he does not say which), and a smaller one for Paul Jones...