Word: depending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that dodge was not enough to excuse plushy requests for appropriations. Said he: "We just had Admiral King in here, and Admiral King says: 'I have to pass it right back to Admiral Home'; now we have Admiral Home here and he says 'I have to depend on the bureau chiefs,' and then the bureau chief says 'I have to depend on the men under me,' and it goes right down to the fellow who is at the [Naval] Academy and wanted the stadium." Out went the stadium. Declared Jamie Whitten: "It takes...
...irritation, Lord Beaverbrook.* At this point, Churchill must have bristled. Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, is many things to the Prime Minister-a friend with a flair and dash otherwise lacking in the men around Churchill; a tough, nationalistic figure who usefully personifies Britain's instinctive, rising desire to depend first on herself and her Dominions (see p. 33) in a world where "the United Nations" are none too united. (Again the knowing Economist spieled a commentary: "Lord Beaverbrook is a believer in strong diplomacy and splendid isolation . . . Mr. Eden a convinced advocate of negotiated diplomacy...
...materially needed commodities must take the place of a struggle for so-called favorable balance. . . . We must recover reverence for the earth and its resources, treating it no longer as a reservoir of potential wealth to be exploited, but as a storehouse of divine bounty on which we utterly depend...
Amid this general confusion of charge and countercharge, Governor Dewey was by now pretty well lost from sight. That cool politician's case seemed to depend on what he meant by "political news." But however technically correct Secretary Hull may have been in his denial, the affair had certainly not lessened the ten sion between him and the U.S. press. Said one Washington correspondent...
...Germany will be neither powerless nor unimportant. Says Dr. Notestein: "Germans will continue to form the largest ethnic group west of the Slavs. On their continued productive efficiency will depend much of the economic welfare of Europe. It [must] be maintained. Otherwise, a train of poverty and disillusionment, spreading throughout the Continent, might soon bring a new political upheaval...