Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some other countries (e.g., France, Italy) Russia is for the moment content to infect a minority big and influential enough to prevent policies she considers highly undesirable, though not big enough to get control. Still a third group of countries (e.g., India, Spain) is exposed to Communist contagion, largely because their present regimes have not solved pressing political and social problems...
With over 10,000 of all Eire's teachers donating a tenth of their pay to the cause, Dublin's 1,200-odd primary-school teachers were content to wait it out all summer if necessary. Vaguely promised a raise in salary (present maximum for men: $1,900) since December 1944, they were determined to get it. Present salaries, said the teachers' union, were not "in accordance with the dignity of the profession." Cried Dublin's dignified teachers, we just can't live on the money...
Land v. Sea. Some nations, declared Haushofer, were "static"-old, tired, with declining birthrates, content to hold on to what they had; others were "dynamic"-aggressive, young, with increasing birthrates, in need of more Lebensraum. A state was a living organism, quite justified in seizing what it needed to survive. For a dynamic nation like Germany, conquest was a natural biological function...
...chances. Hollow-cheeked, 31, and still nursing ulcers, Di Mag stepped to bat one day last week, swung as if the final game of the World Series depended on it, clouted one homer, one double, and two singles in four times up. Ex-Marine Ted Williams, 27, once content to be baseball's best batsman, was now working at his fielding, too. Brooklyn's Dixie Walker, the pride of Flatbush, was no cinch to be a regular...
...Communist himself, but a down-the-line unionist who has often said that he would back Communists or Republicans, if it would help the union, Addes has been content with the U.A.W.'s No. 2 job. Up to now George Addes has usually thrown his support to Compromiser Thomas. He is still pledged to Thomas, who, with little positive backing of his own among auto workers, is also favorably regarded by C.I.O. President Phil Murray. Thomas has been kept in office up to now largely by the negative votes of those, including the Addes group, who either fear Reuther...