Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leadership in eastern Europe. Why should the Russian influence in western Europe be used to create opposition against the . . . grouping in the west? The Russians tend to argue . . . that only their own spheres of influence are legitimate and all others are bad. . . . The western nations ... are too self-conscious and self-confident to allow themselves to be included in anybody's sphere of influence-which cannot be said of all the nations of eastern Europe. . . . For Russia to oppose [the Western Bloc] would not only be unjust, but shortsighted as well...
Washington. In this labor-conscious state, a well-organized P.A.C. helped boost registration. But it was largely a superorganized A. F. of L. which spearheaded the resounding Democratic sweep, ousting even popular Governor Arthur Langlie...
...quoted as saying: "The only words I spoke to the British commander during the negotiations for the surrender of Singapore were: 'All I want to hear from you is "yes or no." ' I expect to put the same question to Mac-Arthur." The Philippines, said baseball-conscious Tokyo Radio, marked the final battle of the world series, with "the fate of the whole world" hanging on the outcome...
...last week, and France became one of Europe's four ruling powers. Simultaneously, Washington, London and Moscow announced that France had been added to the European Advisory Commission (the U.S., Britain, Russia) established a year ago to consider "the treatment to be accorded [Germany]." Said the Big Three: "Conscious ... of the part France will inevitably play in maintaining the future peace of Europe . . . the Provisional Government of the French Republic [is invited] to full [E.A.C.] membership." (Russia's Ambassador to France, Alexander E. Bogomolov, informed French Foreign Commissioner Georges Bidault that it was Russia who had proposed inviting...
...quiet, moody, self-conscious man whose wit is armor as well as ammunition. He is crotchety about his age; to somebody who asked where he was born, and when, he quipped: "I was born in San Francisco-and I don't blame you for trying." He is facetious about his youth...