Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confederation in which too little sovereignty is surrendered by the member states to make possible an effective world government, and since at the same time it was admitted that it would be impossible at this time to obtain enough surrender of sovereignty by national states to permit the creation of a true federation, the implication was that we should work for a United States of the World which, though unattainable now, might be founded at some future date when public opinion had changed and nationalism diminished...
...Maciel Filho, considered a Vargas mouthpiece, hinted at a longer-range reason: a big expansion of Federal power for postwar exploitation of Brazil's resources. Before the war ends, other Brazilian states may be "dismembered." Said Maciel Filho: "President Vargas is serenely reorganizing our structure. The creation of territories is . . . a preparation for . . . the [postwar] structure of Brazil...
...likely to happen until after the war. Nevertheless, something did happen. It was not the appointment of hard-driving Robert Foot to be sole director and chief executive officer of BBC (he had been joint director with Sir Cecil Graves until the latter's retirement). It was the creation of the new office of Editor in Chief of BBC and the man chosen to fill...
...doesn't take any startling deduction to predict the whole plot of this movie 15 minutes after it has begun. It's the same old flimsy cliche having for its well-worn theme the reform of a draft-dodging gambler by a pretty little Max Factor creation. Of course, all the bad men, recalcitrant grandfathers who get indignant about the family honor, and bungling detectives are part of the trappings...
...Creation of a pool of at least 5,000,000 deadweight tons to be laid up, possibly in the Great Lakes, and held for future emergencies but not "at any time operated in competition with private shipping...