Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the President's great powers he could arouse, shape, channel the emotions of the People towards his ends. With the immense responsibility those powers entailed, he was in duty bound to state his ends clearly, hold himself in check in so far as those ends were not the manifest ends of the U. S. President Roosevelt's ends were known, definite, unneutral: by every means short of war,1) to help Great Britain and France win their war, and 2) to drive Adolf Hitler and Hitlerism from the world. He defined these aims well before World...
...effect of the war on Asia, although not clear, is bound to be tremendous," he began. "Already, Ghandi, while offering support to Britain, has raised the question of Britain's war aims and the question of the fate of India and her possible independence after...
...control ports in the British Isles. Less than a dozen ships had been searched at Gibraltar and Haifa, with only minor seizures (3,000 tons of petroleum, 6,000 of manganese ore, 7,650 of bauxite, 9,000 of iron ore, 500 of frozen beef, etc., etc.). Upon ships bound for Italian ports, especially Trieste, with cargoes suspected of ultimate German destination, the ministry was not yet cracking down...
...ranch in Montana, working on a new book. Vincent Sheean was in Manhattan, awaiting the birth of a child to his English wife. Pierre van Paassen, onetime Toronto Star correspondent in Spain, author of the bestseller, Days of Our Years, was on board the U. S. liner Manhattan, bound for New York...
Negley Parson, lately in South Africa for the London Daily Mail, was recuperating from an operation in a Copenhagen hospital. Eventually he planned to go to Moscow. Walter Duranty was in Rome. John Gunther had sailed from London, bound for Manhattan to be with his ailing wife. All three had signed to write for the North American Newspaper Alliance; and Duranty hoped he would be among the ten U. S. correspondents to be picked by the British Army Council for front-line service in France...