Word: cementation
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Sweden, one anxious eye on expanding Russia, the other on the future, last week took steps to cement a trading bloc of small northwestern European nations...
...islands near the eastern rim. Sprawling over a round island near the main entrance to the lagoon was the sizable town of Koror, mostly composed of laborers' barracks. The U.S. airmen saw the results of Jap labor-two or three islands razed level for fighter and bomber strips, cement jetties from which roads curled back into the jungle to camouflaged fuel and ammunition dumps...
Three ex-newsmen labored to cement U.S.-British good will. Major Ralph Ingersoll, editor-on-leave of Marshall Field's hyperthyroid newspaper, PM, was hard at work as an Army Intelligence officer, seldom had cocktail time. Publisher, now Lieut. Commander Barry Bingham was bossing the Navy's press office at General Eisenhower's headquarters. Herbert Agar, ex-editor of Publisher Bingham's Louisville Courier-Journal, showed up cool and well groomed at luncheons and unveilings whenever his boss, U.S. Ambassador Winant, was otherwise engaged...
...these questions with the Soviet Government, and we ourselves appeal to our Russian allies to take cognizance of the legitimate disquiet of the American people. We ask this not only because it would strengthen our unity in the war and hasten the day of victory, but because it would cement the friendship between the Russian and American peoples in the crucial years to come...
Romains calls his philosophy unanism. An attempt to find a living and usable unity in the shattered, disunited, warring and unhappy modern world, unanism is a conscious decentralization of thought. By its terms (which Romains makes unnecessarily complicated), the old unities that once provided the cement of social life-the sovereign, the church, the family-had lost their power to give zest and meaning to the everyday doings...