Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came that dreadful moment when Franklin Roosevelt must rise in public. Those below could not notice, but those on the portico could see what a supreme effort it takes to hoist himself up. He rose. Spurning a cape offered by his son James, he walked to the black podium, bareheaded and in a blue suit. He was grave and solemn. His big shoulders and his suntanned face with the resolute jaw were all that was visible to the crowd below. Immediately below the portico were 7,806 invited guests, including the Roosevelt grandchildren (see cut);* in the Ellipse stood...
...please within the zone of the Red Armies whether you like it or not. The Soviet Union is going to rely primarily on good solid political and military measures and only secondarily on a possible United Nations Security organization. You cannot oppose us without endangering the common war effort...
Archbishop Damaskinos finally offered to call a conference between ELAS and the Government. But he made it clear that this would be the "last effort" to solve the situation by peaceful means...
Since Oct. 27, when Argentina made her request, the decision had hung fire. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department, aided by Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla dreamed up an entirely different conference of "the American Republics collaborating in the war effort." It would meet in Mexico City on Feb. 15. As a noncollaborator, Argentina would be excluded. The Mexico conference was primarily to discuss war and postwar problems. As an afterthought it might consider the matter of Argentina's isolation...
What is America? What does it mean to be an American? What is the essential faith of America? Today, by their very presence on distant battlefields, Americans raise these questions anew. This closely reasoned, lucid, lengthy (688-page) book is an effort to provide an answer. The work of a distinguished 68-year-old Harvard philosophy professor (whose Thought and Character of William James was a Pulitzer Prizewinner in 1935), it is a rigorous scrutiny of the foundations of American belief...