Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...View. Explained Jimmy Byrnes: George Atcheson had submitted "a broad and thoughtful analysis of the [China] situation as it appeared to him ... an honest effort to assist the Department of State in the formulation of its future policy." John Service had written, in "forceful language" and with some "rather drastic" conclusions, "recommendations for a basic change in U.S. policy" toward Chiang's Government. But this, purred Jimmy Byrnes, was merely one foreign-service man's view, expressed through the proper channels...
...fundamental choice is whether countries will struggle against each other for wealth and power, or work together for security and mutual advantage. . . . The experience of cooperation in the task of earning a living promotes both the habit and the techniques of common effort...
Here, in capsule, was the implacable Left. Much of Laski's audience belonged to the placable Left-New Dealers who preached a muddled "middle way" for its own sake, without much effort to formulate principles. Yet they cheered Laski, the absolutist, who sufficiently relaxed his absolutism to make a deep bow to a compromiser, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the "supreme friend of democracy and freedom...
Then the Generalissimo again dedicated himself to China's unity. "There are some people . . . who have gone so far as to interfere violently with the efforts of the National Government to establish order. . . . The Government is acting to correct this situation. We shall spare no effort to bring internal order and security to the nation...
...original lie detector measured the subject's respiration and blood pressure. These stayed at normal levels while the suspect was answering harmless preliminary questions. But when the questions struck nearer home, the emotional effort of lying made the heart pound harder, the breathing irregular. The machine marked such telltale reactions on a moving strip of paper...