Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most damaging, and which are least so. The Stalinists ignore, or pass off with an occasional snarl, the tirades of chronic Russophobes in the U.S. (usually lumped together as "the Hearst-Patterson-McCormick press"), knowing that their hysteria and exaggeration diminish their influence. But since Atkinson's effort was a fair-minded piece for fair-minded readers of an extremely influential paper, the Moscow puppet press exploded...
...they have never been masters of this land, and Salazar seems to think they never will be. He has said they were "excessively sentimental . . . have a horror of all discipline . . . lack continuity of effort and tenacity [but with] proper discipline and control, there is nothing they cannot be taught...
Other Belgians were far from happy. Would this mean another long political crisis, like the one that began last February? What about Van Acker's economic program? In an effort to put Belgium's economy on a sounder, more competitive basis, Van Acker had dealt firmly and effectively not only with Liberals and Catholics, but with his own working-class followers. To businessmen he had issued a ukase ordering an overall 10% price cut for commodities and services ranging from haircuts to sewer pipes. To striking workers in the grimy industrial Liege district he had sounded a harsh...
...deadline date of July 6 was established by the Scholarship Committee. Most of the men who filed applications at that time were merely applying for aid until they received their allotment checks, and these men were refused aid because the University can aid them with much less confusion and effort, the Committee declared...
...more scoring until the top of the fifth. In this frame Bowdoin scored three runs without getting a hit. DeKalb and Nevens walked. Moravec committed a balk, advancing them a base, Page fanned. The next man up, Clark, hit an easy grounder to Sullivan at third. In an effort to cut the runner off scoring from third, Sullivan threw the ball in to the plate. The peg was good, but it hit DeKalb in the back and rolled into the Crimson dugout, allowing Nevens to score also, and sending Clark to third from where he scored on a squeeze play...