Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said. If Britain could no longer hold (at a relatively small cost) the key position in both the European and Middle Eastern conflict with Russia, then Britain could hold no key positions. If Greece and Turkey went, Italy and France, India and Indonesia might all be lost in a chain reaction. One Senator who heard the news at the White House said: "It's the biggest thing since the declaration of war." Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, the British note only made concrete and inescapable a situation long apparent to those who looked hard enough. Like Pearl Harbor...
There will also be two chain-reacting piles: one of low power like the pile now operating at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; the other hundreds of times stronger...
Like most of these brilliant irreverents and fantasists, W. S. Gilbert was a diehard conservative by conviction, a palace-revolutionary by temperament. When Gilbert heard that suffragettes had chained themselves to the railings in Downing Street, crying "Votes for Women!" he barked: "I shall chain myself to the railings outside Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and yell 'Beds for Men!' " Gilbert's tributes to Queen and Country were usually proffered on the end of a spear. He satirized royalty, the peerage, the law, the clergy, bureaucrats, the Army & Navy...
Speaking immediately preceding the voting, Wilber J. Bender '27, newly-appointed Dean of the College, first outline the University chain of command for the Council members and them tackled the problem of student apathy...
Starving students at universities in Athens, Peiping, Vienna, and Warsaw, and the Salzburg Students Rest Center will benefit from the donations, completing the world-wide chain from contribution to distribution...