Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emily Post writes (TIME, Aug. 19) regarding Russel Wright cups-"A thick edge-especially one curving inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides...
...must be admitted, of course, that the Vatican is faced with some very great difficulties in any effort it may make to cooperate with the Protestants ... in even so vast a cause.... Its solemn claim to be the exclusive and infallible authority in all things spiritual ... [is] a hurdle which only a holy passion for the security of the world can enable it to surmount...
Specific: Jungle Juice. He reacted by trying to be an officer and a gentleman and to enforce naval regulations all by himself-an effort both preposterous and doomed. The crew began to lay for him. It took a little while before a boatswain's mate, backed by eleven years' experience in the Navy and a specific known as "jungle juice," could get Mr. Keith squared away and settled into the routine of a naval auxiliary craft...
...itself during the war? I know of none. . . . America seeks no territory and seeks no reparations. . . . The U.S. must also repudiate [Molotov's] suggestion . . . that the economic clauses proposed by the U.S. and based upon the principle of equality and most-favored-nation treatment are part of an effort to exploit the ex-enemy countries for the selfish advantage...
While Time Remains is an effort to assess the degree of that "unpreparedness" and an inquiry into U.S. relations with the rest of the world. For the most part, Correspondent Stowe writes in lumbering, low-gear journalese ("diabolical idealistic window-dressing to make cannon fodder out of the cream of their countries' youth," etc.), but certain of his assertions are perfectly plain. Among them: 1) the U.S. itself started the atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic...