Word: contended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before crowded galleries, Sir Anthony Eden rose in the House of Commons last week to move the approval of the London and Paris accords on German rearmament. "The only real alternative," he said, "would be to plunge the West into confusion and despair. Is anybody seriously going to contend we should be better able to negotiate with Soviet Russia if we were in that particular condition...
Senator Johnson, an eminently successful minority leader, may learn that being majority leader is quite another matter. Because he still has to contend with Dwight Eisenhower's great popularity, Johnson cannot permit White House-Senate relationships to become too strained. Yet he cannot be too soft toward the Administration for fear of antagonizing the liberal Northern Democrats. Finally, he must prevent a legislative deadlock, lest the Democrats be accused of conducting a do-nothing Congress...
...objection is to the shift of major parts of the Jamaica Plain Arboretum library and herbarium to the new Botany building on Divinity Avenue. An arboretum, the supporters claim, should consist of a library and herbarium, as well as growing plants. Thus, they contend, the transfers to Cambridge are detrimental to the Arboretum...
...There are some," said the President, his voice rising above the roar of the spillway, "who contend that the development and distribution of hydroelectric power is exclusively the responsibility of Federal Government . . . Only thus, these zealots would have us believe, can we poor citizens be protected against exploitation by what they call the 'predatory' exponents of capitalism-that is, free enterprise . . . These believers in centralization fail to warn us that monopoly is always potentially dangerous to freedom, even when monopoly is exercised by government. Curiously enough, they proclaim their fear of a private power monopoly in a county...
Under normal conditions, Cogny could not long hold out without substantial reinforcement. The French are still counting on the weather. IndoChina's heavy rains will commence around July i. the Delta will flood, and both sides will have to stick to the roads or contend with a shoulder-high quagmire...