Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring, Western Europeans criticized the U.S. for its "war hysteria." Recently, however, observers who have sampled European opinion have found a growing tendency to face the possibility of war. Much of the war talk was still simply an expression of fear; many people, feeling cynically certain that the catastrophe was inevitable, had no notion of doing anything to prevent war, or to win "it, if it came...
...Russians had imposed the Berlin blockade in a desperate attempt to prevent Western German recovery. This Russian plan failed. Just four months after the Western Allies introduced their great currency reform, Western Germany was on its feet again. Its revival was a notable triumph for German energy and for certain Western ideas, including free enterprise...
...Rest. Now 44, Pianist Horowitz has slowed to a more becoming pace. He has forsaken Beverly Hills for a quiet apartment and studio in Manhattan's upper East side (and has become a U.S. citizen). Gone are the days of which he complains, "I played certain works so often that I couldn't hear them any more." He still commands the biggest box office of any living concert musician, but is sticking to his resolve to perform only six months of the year and not more than twice a week...
...Russel Grouse; produced by Oscar Serlin) is not only the sequel but just about the equal of Life With Father. Both have the same cheerful, superficial virtues; if Life With Mother seems more contrived, it also seems more lively; if it is naturally less fresh, familiarity has bred a certain affection. Mother carries on from about where Father ended; and Father carries on precisely as before...
...Student Council last night dismissed a request by Dean Watson that would have limited outdoor meetings to certain specified locations...