Word: containers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truth is that the President and his Republican backers are less concerned with the need of the Greek people for food than with the need of the American Navy for oil. The plan to contain Communism is second to that need...
...program a kind of U.S. imperialism? Those Americans made uncomfortable by this word might have to find another word which did not distress them so much. For the U.S. was in a world divided between two great antagonists. Communist imperialism must be contained. U.S. influence must expand to contain it; otherwise the U.S. might be engulfed...
Abortion drugs come in two forms: 1) pills and 2) paste. To get around the law, the pills masquerade as something else (sample label: "An aid to delayed menstruation caused by cold or exposure to inclement weather"). They generally contain ergot, quinine, apiol oil or various exotic substances, none of which, doctors say, can possibly produce abortion. But in the large quantities with which desperate patients often dose themselves, they may be fatal...
Like a child about to go on his first picnic, the American President Lines could hardly contain itself. On April 16, it exuberantly announced, it will resume round-the-world cruises. They will be in the old luxurious "Dollar Line" tradition (but at a new price of $2,213.75, including Government tax, an increase of almost...
...beginning of a new and more vigorous U.S. policy) did not find Marshall wholly unprepared. From the first he had regarded his mission to Moscow not merely as a diplomatic negotiation over Germany, but as part of a worldwide struggle in which the U.S. led the forces attempting to contain the aggressive drive of the Soviet Union...