Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which had made atomic fission possible. Even the sort of control recommended by the President would inevitably touch fields of research far beyond the military uses of the atom. Atomic development could not be totally controlled, nationally or internationally, without also controlling a large part of normal, peacetime scientific effort...
...necessary dependence on interpreters, the striking number of higher-rank officers in residence with mistresses of vanished Nazi bigwigs, the general air of maladroitness and cumbersome effort had given rise to a bitter description. By Germans, and by many a discerning G.I., the U.S. occupation rule of Germany and Austria was being called "the government of interpreters and mistresses...
...During the war, for military reasons, it was necessary [for Canada] to acquiesce in the operation of wartime arrangements under which responsibility for major decisions on the direction of the Allied war effort was concentrated in a very few hands. . . . The wartime pattern [must not be] perpetuated...
...questions, the worry questions, are questions of attitudes and objectives. . . . What kind of a world do we really wish to live in? What sort of an effort are we ready to make to realize it? . . . How can we help each other to make our world a free world...
...Beginning of Influence. The world should find working answers to these questions without delay, said King. In the framing of the answers, Canada-whose contributions to the Allied war effort were greater than any other nation's outside the Big Three-was determined to have a voice...