Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common attribute must be found, I suggest that it is the senator's "all-purpose" pants. No doubt many a professor also wears the same pair to work, to the golf links and to dinner. But here too there is a difference-a difference that will be clear if you apply the adjectives "shiny" and "only" to the pants of the professor...
...expect Mr. Lovett to clear away and drive away the cobwebs and the devils from the world...
...streets, the inhabitants hung out of their windows to see what was happening. Curfew was in force because the rebels had shelled the town with 65 mm. cannon a few nights before. Out in the countryside the scent of almond blossoms filled the damp air. Overhead the sky was clear and stars shone back from puddles of water and the shallow streams we crossed. Occasionally, glowworms, kicked up by the horses' hooves, lit the path...
...private gathering, somebody asked Bevin just what he had meant. He replied passionately and well for 25 minutes, leaving his hearers under the double impression that he 1) believed in it with all his heart, and 2) did not know what "it" was. But one thing was clear enough: some kinds of unification were more pressing (and feasible) than others. Perhaps the problem could be approached on different levels, at different rates of speed...
...hour has come to choose our friends. The problem is clear ... If Europe with her traditions of hard work, her artistic, intellectual and moral traditions, wants to make herself heard, she must organize. Men are ready to accept this idea of organization, but they find it difficult to execute because they have not always the necessary courage to accept sacrifices. Those who think of Western Union as a panacea are wrong, terribly wrong, so wrong they will never have the courage to succeed with this policy which is first based on sacrifices...