Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive blocs. Reluctantly, the free nations had turned back from the high hopes of San Francisco to the bitter lesson learned at Munich in 1938. There were some Americans who feared that the pact might seem provocative. But peaceful men have always found it only common prudence to build stockades in the face of danger...
...were exaggerated. Others were real. The Atlantic pact was a crashing diplomatic defeat for world Communism, but of itself it would not strike at the roots of Communist power nor guarantee the anti-Communist world against attacks. Rather, the pact was a recognition of danger and a resolution to build common defenses. The very achievement of an Atlantic pact underlined the failure to build an Asiatic defense against Communism...
Barnaby plans to build his team around Bud Ager and Ted Bullard, the only holdovers from last year's singles players. Number one man Ager, who performed well in number five last season, picked up plenty of experience when he played in the Prentice Cup matches last summer against an Oxford-Cambridge squad...
...report's most controversial sections dealt with the problem of how much build-up to prescribe for industry, as compared with agriculture. It was no secret that Commission Aide Euvaldo Lodi, president of the National Confederation of Industry (Brazil's N.A.M.), had argued heatedly in favor of industrial development, even charging that some U.S. commissioners wanted to leave that field wide open for fellow yanquis. But the commission's finding was that Brazil still lacks resources and equipment for a general advance on its entire economic front. Because stepping up industry would require a prior boost...
This was small consolation to airmen or British taxpayers who had paid an estimated $28 to $40 million for the governmental bungling that had caused the flop. Said Avro Managing Director Sir Roy Dobson: "I will have to have a contract written in rock before I will build another civil aircraft. I would like to see the whole lot [of Tudors] swept out and burned so that we can forget this ghastly chapter and start again...