Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There must be an "orderly development" of Middle Eastern oil properties, with due regard for the economic interests of local governments. This means recognition by the British, in terms of production and not in profitless concessions, that the U.S. has somewhere near an equal interest in the area...
...crisis passes"-a fact came out which made the whole game plain. Greeks in Greece had just agreed to send a man to talk in Cairo; fears that a Cabinet shuffle would be needed to entice a fighting Greek across the sea were groundless. This week King George was due to fly to Cairo...
...certain reputation as an antiFascist. He did have trouble with Mussolini, but their fights were due more to delinquency than to politics. When he went to Brussels to claim his bride, an exiled anti-Fascist took a badly aimed shot at him. Ever after he raised his hand in the Fascist salute and, like his father, gave the Duce no trouble. Lately, ordinary Italians have dubbed him lo stupido nazionale and il buffone (clown...
...called) with disbelieving Soviet information, falling for Nazi misinformation. The major Zaslavsky counts: 1) prediction in 1941 of the Red Army's quick defeat; 2) assurance in September, 1942, of the Wehrmacht's victory without doubt; 3) assertions at 1944's start that Russian triumphs were due to the German necessity for great reserves in the west; 4) most recently, assertion that the Germans would hold Odessa, while Red Army columns were even then closing...
According to the figures, triplets are due about once in 7,869 births, quadruplets once in 700,000. All that Sloane Hospital, the Diligentis and Sergeant Thompson had was a mild coincidence...