Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a hyper-realistic effort, it is vital that the cast be shrewdly picked to avoid affectation, histrionics, and dramatic cliches; the international group, often even benefited by lack of previous experience, fulfils every qualification. "The Last Chance" differs from its many predecessors not because it is trying to say something but because it succeeds is getting a great deal beyond a feeble waving of the studio copy of the Americas flag...
...supreme effort he managed to be duller and more dignified than the mayor. Seattle voters, confronted almost for the first time with two polite candidates, hardly knew where to turn. As for Vic Meyers, he hadn't looked as happy in years...
...addition, Canada canceled a whopping British debt: $425,000,000 incurred when Canada housed and trained British flyers during the war under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Moreover, Canada agreed to settle, for $150,000,000, all big & little "known & unknown" claims that resulted from an intermeshed war effort...
...Federal Council has achieved a remarkable degree of unity on social and world affairs among at least half of those U.S. Christians whose faith embodies the very name of protest. The Council preserves its unity, however, by avoiding theological discussion, knowing full well that any real effort toward doctrinal unity would drive its 25 groups back into their own shells for good...
...issues and effort of the Civil War produced the moral writings of Emerson and Thoreau, Walt Whitman's best poetry, Abraham Lincoln's speeches, and Mark Twain's best book (Huckleberry Finn). They also proved that history's greatest democracy was not going the way of democratic Athens, for the war's dead were scarcely settled in their graves when the Robber Barons took over their country. They were able to do so because practically every American intensely admired them, and hoped to be a Robber Baron himself. The result of their enterprise...