Word: considerably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Economic and Social Council stole few headlines from its noisy twin, the Security Council. But Ecosoc, which had proliferated into eleven subsidiary agencies (to consider everything from health to hunger, from a free press to free trade), was having its own hot debates, its own clashes between the big...
Clark quickly learned how to use the Russians' obvious weaknesses. When they seized the Zistersdorf oilfields, he innocently inquired during a Council session: "Supposing we consider pig iron. Do you need any?" The interpreter snapped back: "Marshal Konev wishes General Clark to know that the Soviet Union does not...
Of Farrell's new novel, he said: "I discovered at least two chapters which I consider indecent. There was nothing else I could do about it but slap on the ban. . . . We're not on a witch hunt. The fewer such decisions we have to make the better...
¶ Although many scientists would consider it too optimistic, Minister Howe thought the practical everyday application of atomic energy was only about five years off. "The science is in about the same position today as electricity occupied when Faraday discovered the electromagnet about 100 years ago . . . but practical application of...
"If ever I should have a biographer," he said later, "he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed." But he never said exactly what, except for his reading...