Word: cumbered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians knew that the cumber some mass of Russian arms could not roll far beyond Russia's borders. One-third of the Red Army was already demobilized (see FOREIGN NEWS), and millions more would soon be returning to farms and fac tories. Russia's prospects of expansion by world revolution had seldom been slim mer. All over Europe, men looked else where than toward Communism for a kind of security and dignity that their prewar systems had failed to insure them. In consequence the Communist parties, far from being all-powerful or irresistible, were on the defensive...
...good. But I like to distinguish between the Golden Rule and Euclid on the one hand and such items as Cabinet responsibility on the other. The first two are discoveries of something of absolute and universal value. The last is a device belated in its formulation and likely to cumber the earth long after it has ceased to be useful...
...will have to get into the safest place you can find and stay there until the battle is over. . . . This also applies to people inland if a considerable number of parachutists . . . are landed. . . . Above all, they must not cumber the roads. . . . It may easily be some weeks before the invader has been totally destroyed...