Word: depends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as we are resigned to crooked ness and waste in government, we will continue to have a wasteful government. As long as we depend upon intellectual trick ery instead of truth, we will continue to have crowd psychology and propaganda, instead of well-informed public opinion...
...from a secret document drawn up by a top-rank Air officer, which contained emergency directions showing the exact number and positions of guns during the critical German-Austrian Anschluss weekend. Since M. P.s are not allowed to hold active commissions in the regular armed forces, most of them depend on private "leaks" for their inside information...
...first time since he came to power seven years ago, "Dev" would have a fairly comfortable majority, 75 seats against a total of 63 if all the other parties combined against him. Elected at first with a precarious majority, for the last five years his government has had to depend on Labor support to hold office. Month ago, his own political stock soaring as a result of the Anglo-Irish treaty, "Dev" shrewdly seized upon a minor government rebuff as an excuse to dissolve Parliament and go to the country...
Interviewed in a Saturday morning radio program over the Colonial network, a member of the graduating class, Caspar W. Weinberger '38 said that he thought succeeding in life did not depend upon being a college man or a non-college man but that it was up to the individual...
...belongs to a political society, and when he is shot by a gunman of no particular party stripe, Otto avenges him with a bullet from his army Luger. When Patricia, whom all three loved so well and worked so hard for, dies of tuberculosis, Otto and Erich must depend on ghosts for comradeship...