Word: cite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mood. German Communist Boss Wiihelm Pieck recently told 200 "Socia11st Unity" Party workers: "We are losing one position after another to the reactionaries. We put on brilliant parades, but the election results are the opposite. We have examples of opportunist backsliding and degeneracy in our party. [Many Communists] can cite Lenin, Marx and Engels, but they cannot cope with practical politics ... A belief has awakened in the masses that ... we are on the downward path...
Last Friday afternoon at a meeting for the proctors Mr. Leonard outlined the responsibilities of such an officer of the University, and at such an occasion it is quite natural that he should cite one or two unusual cases that have come up before, in which cheating caused no little difficulty to the testing bureau, the faculty and the students themselves. The alleged assumption and assertion of Mr. Leonard that students will cheat was in reality a statement of undeniable fact: students have cheated before. And Mr. Leonard's instructions to the proctors were most explicit. Proctors...
Most of Jones's essayists base their pacifism on Christ's actions rather than on His words. They cite the Crucifixion as history's greatest example of victory over evil by nonresistance to force...
...finding that out exactly presupposes that the people know exactly-and will say so. Can his supposedly unweighted questions draw sufficiently weighty answers? Gallup can cite example after example to indicate that they can and do. On his own ratings the people were three months ahead of Congress on the draft in 1940, nine months ahead on repeal of the neutrality embargo, two years ahead on spreading the income-tax burden from 4 to 40 million U.S. citizens. They advocated revision of the Wagner Act long before Congress passed the Taft-Hartley law. If Congress were legislating according to Gallup...
These who believe that subsidy is the only way the News can survive generally cite two arguments in support of their cause. They say that rising costs have squashed them financially, and they say that the "security" of an assured subscription list would insure a Golden Ago of never-ending enlargement and improvements...