Word: contend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fast and Slow. One bad result, according to the report, is that the Price Boards often slash the profits of a fast, cheap producer just as much as they cut earnings of a slow, inefficient manufacturer. Asked the Committee: "Who can contend that it is excessive, unfair or unpatriotic for [the good producer] to receive a substantially greater profit, both in percentage and in dollars, than [the poor...
Franklin Roosevelt's Amen was loud and clear above the others. It boomed out again at the close of the Prayer for Social Justice: "Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression...
Taciturn, aging Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, placed by Adolf Hitler "at the permanent disposition" of the French Chief of State, last week clapped hundreds of suspect Frenchmen in jail, tightened frontier surveillance and ordered confiscation of radio sets. Rundstedt had something new to contend with: partisan warfare...
...would contend that all Nisei soldiers have each of these qualities. Naturally, there are good and bad among them, but the good predominate. When the war is over, we shall find decorations on the breasts of many of them. In the meantime, let's show some semblance of fair play toward all Japanese-Americans who would prefer to be accepted as fellow Americans. !amp Savage, Minn...
...finogenov's play does not concern itself much with plot. Instead, it concentrates on a series of character sketches, with a visible Chekhov influence, and winds up as a decidedly unproletarian drama--with plenty of bourgeois emotions and sentimentality to contend with. Afinogenov isn't much as a Soviet propagandist; he does much better as a playwright...