Word: binds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might this Gletkin be? . . . He must have taken part in the Civil War and seen the outbreak of the Revolution as a mere boy. That was the generation that had started to think after the flood. It had no tradition and no memories to bind it to the old, vanished world. It was a generation born without umbilical cord, . . . It is just suck a generation of brutes that we need...
...seal of acceptance by the United States of the Vatican's influence on world affairs, a power that has often been used in opposition to the internal policies of the United States and its allies. Some have claimed that sending an ambassador to the Vatican would no more bind the U.S. to the policies of the Pope than diplomatic representation to Spain binds it to Fascism...
...traditional way to improve such soil is to add large amounts of manure or to plow under many crops of green stuff. When this organic material decays, a small part of it turns into natural gums called "polyuronides," which bind the soil particles together into the much-desired crumbs. But reforming a problem soil in this way is expensive and the polyuronides are quickly destroyed by soil bacteria...
Barriers to Be Broken. The Schuman Plan, perhaps the most imaginative postwar act of European statesmanship, is intended to bind the six West European nations into a single U.S.-size "coal and steel community," able to produce 220 million tons of coal and 38 million tons of steel each year. Within this vast integrated market (total pop. 155 million) there will be no customs duties on coal and steel shipments, and miners and steelworkers will be able to move freely without passports or visas. A supranational High Authority of nine "stateless technocrats" (no more than two from any one country...
...political life. Those who are selected for office by their fellow men are entrusted with grave responsibilities. They have been selected not for self-enrichment, but for conscientious public service. In their speech and in their actions they are bound by the same laws of justice and charity which bind private individuals in every other sphere of human activity...