Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours I shove off on something very tough-an effort to photograph 24 hours in the life of a soldier under fire. I am afraid that I cannot say what really must be said. This hurts deeply, and I am scared...
...disgruntled. Said he: "I am very, very sorry. . . . The CCF sweep in Saskatchewan goes far to disclose how much of the [CCF Party's time] was being given to ... the winning of elections, while the Government and its followers were mainly concerned with making Canada's war effort as effective as possible...
Dudgeon. In Middletown, Conn., Angelo Salafia, classified IA, was fined $100 for painting on his draft-board chairman's sidewalk: "Connell-what have you done for the war effort...
Until public opinion, and particularly that in the more advanced of the democracies, fully recognizes the stark truth that peace can never be static; that it will never exist except as the result of the continuous effort and the unfaltering will of a majority of the peoples of the world; that its attainment can only come about as the consequence of Infinitely greater human effort than that which will be required to win the greatest of all wars, the search for peace will not be crowned with success...
Said the tax collector: "Our country depends on taxes to maintain the war effort...