Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These peoples," he stressed, "are not interested in the maintenance of a status quo, in laissez-faire or direction less growth, but "are determined to take conscious control of their social development in order to destroy those plagues of civilization which are war, poverty and oppression...
Quick Shift. From Paris had flowed a generous measure of the ideas that nourished Western democracy. Were Parisians hungry enough to forget their heritage of freedom? Jeannette Vermeersch and Maurice Thorez were betting that they were. Frenchmen everywhere, nearly as food-and fuel-conscious as the women of Les Halles, last week heard Communists making down-to-earth campaign speeches with little mention of Marxist ideas. By stressing the black market that fed the rich and starved the rest, Party Boss Thorez hoped he could make enough Frenchmen forget the less immediate but not less important issues involved in this...
...joshed owlish Herbert Morrison, veteran of 14 years in the party-conscious British House of Commons, to an American friend last week. Parliamentarian Morrison, visiting Washington on a special mission (see Food), might well wonder. His arrival coincided with a sorry spectacle on Capitol Hill...
Last week the State Department answered both sides. State, conscious of Russia's air monopoly in the Balkans, told T.W.A.: the U.S. is opposed to exclusive trade privileges for any one power in ex-enemy states. But if the exclusive features were taken out of the T.W.A. contract, the Department would try to see that the contract was carried out. Said State to the British: the U.S. could not force T.W.A. to share its Italian interests with B.O.A.C. However, the British could arrange with the Italian Government to form a rival company...
Unwieldy Law. But, as Broido knew, the priority system was put into the badly drawn Surplus Property Act by vote-conscious Congressmen, would probably stay there. Said Broido of the hodgepodge act: "You could be the smartest merchant in the world, Old Man Original Macy or Gimbel himself, and you couldn't do a very good job . . . with this legislation...