Word: braved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some legs for you. The soldiers who lost their legs in the war are walking again. They were brave and I want you to be brave...
...biggest party, might be more dangerous outside the Government than in it. Now that they had sided with the strikers, their grip on the labor unions was firmer than ever before -and through them they had a grip on France's entire economy. It was doubtful whether brave little Ramadier's centrist Government could run the country against Communist opposition. Inside Ramadier's own Socialist Party, a large faction, still bitterly opposed to the break with the Communists, might force Ramadier's resignation. Worried Frenchmen saw two alternatives: 1) the Communists would triumphantly return...
...markets were black markets. The picture of brave prosperity was false, and its bright colors hid festering dirt and dangerous tensions. Inflation went unchecked. Unemployment was,nearing the two-and-a-half-million mark. In Rome, Foreign Minister Count Carlo Sforza was on his way to the Foreign Office when a crowd surrounded his car and mauled him. Cried Sforza: "I know you want bread! I work 16 hours a day so you'll get it." The bitter reply: "You work-but we can't." The Government, a paralytic coalition of Christian Democrats, Communists and Socialists, was bogged...
...change was not drastic, the Kuomintang never intended it to be. It was intended to answer foreign demands that China show a little interest in democracy, now that the brave new post-war world has reared its ugly head over the land of squeeze. Elections will not be held before next December, so party hacks have plenty of time to arrange for a safe majority. In the meantime, the Kuomintang had to shunt off insinuations and questions concerning "one-party rule...
What can be done? UNRRA, the American Red Cross, Europe's handful of doctors have failed to stop the white plague's spread. This month one of Europe's smallest countries, Denmark, will launch a brave try. Its weapon: BCG vaccine (TIME, Nov. 11), which in Danish tests has reduced the T.B. rate to one-seventh that among the unvaccinated. In the next few weeks Danish Red Cross teams, each consisting of a doctor, two nurses and a secretary, will go to Warsaw, Budapest and Rendsburg, Germany, to begin vaccinating their populations, children first...