Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight Rumania's Premier General Nicolai Radescu had stubbornly defied every effort by the small but vociferous pro-Communist National Democratic Front to drive him out of office. Denunciations, demonstrations, minor riots in four cities, even an attempted assassination had failed to force the unpolitical Premier's resignation (TIME, March 5). Last week things suddenly began to happen...
...process of liberation, France's transportation system was crippled. After long undermaintenance, France's machinery needed major repairs. And the Allied military effort prevented major diversions for repairs, fuel or raw material. In the Paris area half the workers were unemployed. Germany had kept Frenchmen reasonably well by making them work for her. But the Allies had not yet found a way to let France work, even for them...
Agassiz Hall will be site number one for Daparof, which gets under way tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Designed by the 'Cliffers as their contribution to the total war effort, Daparof is aimed at the free entertainment of all Cambridge servicemen every Friday evening...
...press was frustrated and angry. Columnists tried to sound knowing, merely sounded vague. Said the Montreal Gazette: it is time "to clear the air and to put an end to the uncertainty that is strangling the nation's effort at home...
Bringing its exhibit up to the 20th Century, the Sociedad also showed a modern Indian dance mask fashioned of straw, bits of mirror ?nd shiny human teeth (see cut). But in the main, there was not much effort to place works in their exact historical niches. Even the archeologists avoid references to epochs: they merely speak of four vague "cultural horizons...