Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before that he took another firm, if tardy, step. He short-circuited the effort to put through Congress a bill authorizing a postwar Navy of 6,000 ships. He asked Senators to hold off until the Army and the Air Forces had presented their postwar plans. Then he would make the overall recommendation for the nation's military establishment based on 1) necessity, 2) cost. This in itself was merger of a kind, in advance...
Said Atkinson: "This temperamental remark . . . assumes that the effort toward understanding is to come all in one direction. . . . Living in isolation behind inhospitable borders, Russia dwells in an atmosphere of self-congratulation. . . . Despite the warmheartedness of the individual Russian people . . . Russia is not trying to understand us as eagerly as many Americans are trying to understand Russia. In such matters Russia imports a great deal more than she exports...
...grind. The day they are to be sent back of the lines for a rest, the least popular of them gets trapped under enemy fire. Anxious as the others are to pull out, they are held back by some mystical emotion of comradeship and even disobey orders in an effort to rescue their...
...atomic power . . . the prevention of war is now the issue which transcends all other social and political issues." effort, by all men of good will, at home and abroad, in order that their influence may accomplish the task that lies ahead."
...exponents of class war, racial war, or national war, have discovered beneath their differences a common determination to give political liberalism a premature burial." It is still unburied because "liberalism, in its essence, is a part of life; and where it is destroyed, the alternative is death. It representsjthe effort to formulate, as a principle of collective action, certain fundamental dispositions of human nature. As such, it inherits a tradition unmatched by any other po litical principle; yet it is not the only principle, the only tenable position, and nothing is gained by speaking as if it were." Compensating Pole...