Word: deters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agreed politely with the American Chemical Society that it would "deter the conduct of the war to take young chemists, chemical engineers and physicists away from work" and put them into uniform...
Ruth Earnshaw, Philadelphia-born wife of Professor Lo Chuan-fang: "Out here we sometimes indulge in the notion that we college teachers are the forgotten men and women of the war. Those of us who feel that the reasons for which we entered the profession are still valid are deter mined to stick it out. . . . We know that China's war is not solely against the Japa ese; it is almost equally against ignorance and poverty, and our battle on the education front will go on long after the last shot is fired at the invader." Professor Lo (University...
...inept pupil, is arrested after the smashup of a stolen car in which he is riding. The police discover Ernie's mother is a fence (she dies the next day from cancer). Ada decides to marry her gangster boss. The novel ends with Ernie deter mined "to get His own back on the lot of them. ... All He* had to do was sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling it hard and sling it often and pick up His money. Then He could dress His self proper and get a car for His self, and look the part...
...underdog missed no cue. Now, after a lifetime of oppression in Massachusetts, he was being crucified in Washington. Explained Curley, his ruddy, liverish face messianic: "I have . . . refused to be a rubber stamp while serving as a member of Congress. . . . Indictments, threats or pressure of any character shall not deter me from doing what in my judgment is best for the American people...
While the war is on, we should hold the issues in abeyance to the extent of not letting them deter our common war efforts. . . . [But] the seeds of disunity are already there. ... If the war does not break us, the peace may. For it is absolutely certain that there will be no peace without collective security, and no collective security without American collaboration in the postwar world. . . . Psychologically, present-day Americans are more ready to renounce isolationism than certain Europeans are ready to renounce the politics of power and imperialism. Both must be renounced at the same time; otherwise Europe...