Word: depending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Equally important is the French drive to divorce Austrians from their German cousins. Over & over again the French tell them: "Whatever you produce we will buy or Italy will buy or England will buy. You need not depend on Germany. Reorient yourself from the north towards the south and west. Be independent of Germany and stay out of trouble...
...saying: ". . . Since the only practical means of getting this economically-groggy old world back to livable conditions is through the exchange of merchandise and services . . . and since the type of people interested in publications such as TIME constitute the intellectual, social, and economic group upon which such exchange must depend, your plan should prove not only very helpful but very successful...
Nevertheless, Bevin argued that, elections or no, the Poles in Anders' army should go home. Little by little Anders got the idea. Anders must depend on British transport facilities. If the general did not cooperate, he might find it even harder to rejoin his troops in Italy than to get a hotel room in London...
...There is a constant pull exerted . . . to write a bad review of a play. Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. Their bons mots, which are quoted and remembered, are always capsule damnations, cutting and sour. Their reputations, and I suppose their pay, depend, then, upon disliking plays . . . In no other art is there anything vaguely resembling this. . . . [Critics] become Shakespeare's peer. "It was better in France. There the critics were perceptive and corrupt. The managers paid them off and bought good reviews and the plays were left to the honest decision...
...There is a constant pull exerted . . . to write a bad review of a play. Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. Their bons mots, which are quoted and remembered, are always capsule damnations, cutting and sour. Their reputations, and I suppose their pay, depend, then, upon disliking plays . . . In no other art is there anything vaguely resembling this. . . . [Critics] become Shakespeare's peer. "It was better in France. There the critics were perceptive and corrupt. The managers paid them off and bought good reviews and the plays were left to the honest decision...