Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advantage of the mess to harass France for more and faster independence than France could sensibly give. The truce was on the way in Korea, freeing Communism to turn its attention and resources on the war that Korea had overshadowed. Their fortunes and their spirits at a dismally low ebb, the leaders of France were seriously wondering whether to cut their lines and pull out the one plug that was blocking Asian Communism from flooding through to Burma, Siam, and probably all Southeast Asia...
Most of all, a period of cold peace-what Stalin called "an ebb in the revolutionary tide"-would give the new men in the Kremlin time to settle down...
...Bereaved. In the McLeansboro (Ill.) Times-Leader, Mrs. Ebb Hargrave pleaded: "Will the person or persons who took all my hens and left the old rooster come and get him. He is lonesome...
Where may the new religious movement flower first? "It might not start in America or in any European or Western country," said Toynbee, "but in India. Conquered India will take her matter-of-fact American conqueror captive . . . The center of power in the world will ebb back from the shores of the Atlantic to the Middle East, where the earliest civilizations arose 5,000 or 6,000 years...
...Commonwealth, once the product of all States in the quality and integrity of its leadership, now stands before the people of the Nation condemned and ridiculed because of its machine-ridden, patronage-hungry, and pension-seaking Democratic Administration which has reduced government to its lowest ebb in history...