Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris document was an effort to show how Europe would help itself to economic recovery. George Marshall had said, in effect: "The U.S. helps those who help themselves." The Paris conferees had now, in effect, replied: "O.K., here it is." The next move...
First and foremost, Europe's production effort must be recharged with food, fuel, power, transport and equipment. Said the report: "More food for miners means more coal; more coal means more steel; this in turn makes it possible to produce more mining and agricultural machinery to produce more coal and more food, and more transport equipment to enable the increased supplies of coal to flow smoothly from the pits." The plan specifically included western Germany...
...part this was General Chang's effort to retrieve past Chinese blunders; in part it was Chang's bid for the loyalty of the Moslem Turkis in the larger struggle which seeks to prevent Sinkiang from becoming the "Poland of Asia...
...took time to install his version of the T formation. He lacked a quarterback, his ends were too light, center was weak and his reserves were below par. Yet with tireless effort, he worked throughout the Spring and early fall to make this team what it is today...
With a threadbare story and a total lack of spectacular sunsets, or five-minute chases, Carol Red and his crew have filmed twenty-four hours of a lost cause with the realistic effort of a smack in the face. The dialogue bears the dewey stamp of the auld sod; the characterizations are revealing without being talkative; and the scenes are put together to make sense, not to elicit sentiment. The widely varied personages are portrayed with a concentration of acting that make each distinctive. The film strains the emotions, but, thanks to British restraint, net the imagination...