Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patton makes a mistake, at least he's making an effort to impress in the strongest way upon the public that we must end wars! Goddamit, isn't there any one on your staff who has the courage to defend a great...
Franklin Roosevelt made Hal Sevier Ambassador to Chile in 1933. But the Seviers' stay in Santiago was short. In four years Texas' rich daughter was divorced, back home, back in politics.. Into the abortive effort to make Jack Garner president she threw all her energy and, it was said, $250,000. After Brother Bob Jr. died in 1929, she ruled the family domain of oil fields and ranches all alone. When Hal Sevier died in 1940 she changed her name (to Mrs. Clara Driscoll) but not her fast, energetic pace...
...they are excellent on the top level, poor on the middle level, good on the bottom level. Between the British and Russians they are not quite as good on any level. Reason: the British are more set in their ways. Top-level Americans and Russians have made a deliberate effort to know each other as men, which the British are more slow to do. For instance, when Brigadier W. R. N. Hinde, British Military Governor, wants to see the Russian Military Governor, General Nikolai Baranov, he sends an officer to make the appointment a day in advance, then appears with...
...front page of the London Times last week appeared three brief obituaries that were like an epitome of Britain's war effort: "Dudman - killed at El Alamein, Nov. 2, 1942, Richard Anthony Dudman, Lieutenant, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry...
...head of the conference table the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, his face showing the strain of a fortnight's recurring crises, announced that his present effort to give India self-government had failed. Of the parties represented, all but the Moslem League had handed him lists of prospective members of the proposed Executive Council. The predominantly Hindu Congress party had been willing to take office. But, in the person of its President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Moslem League had rejected Wavell's plan...