Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third corner of the capital, labor began to build its fires. With one eye on the Decontrol Board hearings, 300 top C.I.O. leaders staged a strategy meeting, agreed to make a show of suffering patience before blowing the lid again on U.S. industry...
...UNRRA cease operations in Europe by Oct. 1 for lack of cash, he stirred up a whirlwind of protest. Seven small nations, backed by Russia, pleaded that UNRRA aid be continued. Said Poland's Hilary Mine: "Those who suggest liquidation remind me of architects who, after great effort, build a house but stop short of a roof...
Last week the New York Times took a long look at the problem, came up with an editorial stand against "extending Jim Crowism to the printed page . . . [which helps] build up the bad moral climate which does encourage violence among the ignorant, the weak and the vicious." Said the Times: "[In crime stories] Negroes are often identified, whereas members of other races are not. This may seem a small thing. The Negroes do not think...
Neutrality & Neighbors. Afghanistan is now on the threshold of a vast modernization program under the direction of Public Works Minister Mohamed Kabir Ludin, a Cornell graduate, whose Chief Engineer is John B. Alexander of Portland, Ore. They are now assembling material and workers to build roads, irrigation projects, airfields, hydroelectric plants and schools...
...crazily exaggerated build-up [which] led. . . to the inevitable 'letdown' after the tests. . . . The Navy's safety precautions for the first test were almost ridiculously overdone Pseudo-scientists and in a few cases reputable scientists . . . made some astounding and wholly unscientific predictions" and the press lapped them...