Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mutual uncertainty might develop into one of the great tragedies of World War II: that, having won a victory over an enemy who was certainly common, the victors might not be able to negotiate a common future. The thing which made this tragedy a real danger was the tendency of people at large and even some statesmen to speak in vague, fearful cliches without attempt to find out even what the Russians want...
...defining our post-war policy, and might be interpreted as a "go-ahead" sign for the embarking on the American Century, in which the United States would single-handedly dominate or at least exercise influence over all the nations of the world. Such a military training program might easily develop an army so large that the government would be tempted to use it not as a weapon of temporary expediency, but as a long-run substitute for mutual cooperation and the eventual restoration of political and economic equality of the defeated nations...
...Britain, fearing a greater rival, will jealously watch every American advance; a suspicious Russia, finally disillusioned about the hope of cooperating with the capitalist host, will concentrate on the organization of power within her frontiers, and a renascent China, potentially more powerful than any other block, will seek to develop her limitless resources without incurring dangerous obligations to those who once exploited...
...best man. In February 1919, in Dublin, Anne Butler Yeats was born. Yeats told a friend: "George [his wife] announces from the horoscope that the child will be good-looking and lucky," and wrote a magnificent poem to her, praying that she might not, like beautiful Maud Gonne, develop an "opinionated mind...
Asked if the Axis might not develop the same process, Standard's Gallagher hitched his shoulder a little higher, murmured it was not likely: key to the process is a synthetic and costly catalyst which is a commercial as well as a war secret...