Word: dragooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MANY Europeans and Asians mistrust the tendency to dragoon the whole world into two big-power blocs, each professing the noblest intentions and emitting, alternately, highfalutin slogans about democracy and Tarzanlike boasts of invincible might. We have seen this tendency in American and Soviet policy alike. We believe that it is wrong in itself, and likelier to lead to war than to peace...
Typically, Ros used this information not to change her talkative ways but to dragoon her two friends into helping her write a wordy, autobiographical play called The Winter's Tale. Its heroine's misadventures were strikingly like those that afflict Ros in Wonderful Town when she sings "One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose...