Word: crush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moderator. Mohandas Gandhi has been the great moderating influence in India. Under the present policy of trying ruthlessly to crush nationalism, Britain apparently believes that he will be able to act with moderation over his colleagues' heads. But ten months ago Gandhi said that "riots would be a welcome relief if that is the price we must pay for freedom," and since then he has become even more uncompromising. If the Mahatma himself should decide to make a speech, and if he should be arrested, India's subsurface unrest would almost certainly boil over...
Political Primer. If the stalemate was ever to be broken, one of the two would have to crush the other politically. Most of Argentina's political intricacies can be understood in terms of their rivalry-the fact that in Argentina, as in the U. S. in the past four years, the President and Vice President are on opposite sides of the political fence. Though Argentina is split into as many factions as pre-World War II France, most of its politicians belong to one of two main groups: the Radicals of President Ortiz of the Conservatives of Vice President...
...Keitel last month, to be told how to retrieve his subordinates' botch of a campaign which he never approved, must have made the 68-year-old Marshal swallow hard. Last week he retired "at his own request" from the service of a Duce whom he once offered to crush as an upstart...
...Shun Pao: "We hate the United States, which forgets humane justice, more than we hate the Chungking Government. The time will come when either we swallow up the United States or the United States swallows us. Awaken, Asiatic peoples! We must speed up military and diplomatic measures and crush Anglo-American efforts to obstruct the New Order...
...unalterably opposed to any plan to institute compulsory government work campus. Such camps, in the light of the present foreign and domestic policy of the federal administration would only be used to break down already inadequate educational standards, to break the will of American youth for peace, and to crush the organized labor movement by the establishment of a source of cheap labor...