Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning the guests learned what Lange had known all during the party-that Russia had peremptorily questioned Norway about her joining the proposed North Atlantic Defense Pact, in effect had warned her to stay out of it. Scandinavia's period of fence-sitting was coming to a close...
...government's campaign for Candidate Carmona predicts civil war if Mattos should win and circulates outlandish whispering-campaign stories, one of them to the effect that Mattos once became enraged when he was thrown from a horse, and ordered the animal shot. In a village near Lisbon, a truck dropped handbills which boasted that the government had brought electricity, a school, a cemetery to the district. In his dirt-floored stone house, an old man read the handbill-by the light of a kerosene lamp. Said he: "We've never lacked space to bury our dead...
...future, the Soviets may make legitimate movements toward the settlement of international disputes. They may work honestly to effect a Truman-Stalin meeting without ballyhoo and propagandizing motives. This would be an excellent beginning to East-West agreements, and it must be earnestly followed up by Washington. But even this could not solve the world's troubles. There can be no side-sweeping Truman-Stalin "deals." Only a concert of Western powers can bargain with Russia. If Truman and Stalin tried to compromise their way to a more comfortable "peace," the patient work of the North Atlantic group of powers...
...meeting of the Radcliffe governing board or of the administration will be necessary to approve the plan for the Annex. The ruling will take effect immediately after the Harvard vote, without official confirmation at Radcliffe...
...vote requested the President to appoint a Committee on General Education and authorized that Committee to offer courses in General Education on an experimental basis beginning in September 1946. The vote also imposed upon the Committee responsibility for recommending to the Faculty such changes as may be "necessary to effect the transition to the vote, and after extended discussions of the problems involved in effecting the transition, the Committee on General Education unanimously offers the following motions...