Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intended to prove that it would not collapse. If the Russians were forced to realize that Communism had to live in the world with democracy, George Marshall thought, they would cooperate. Until they did, forcing changes in the forms of international cooperation was not only wasted but also dangerous effort...
...would take a great deal more than the courage of hungry Berliners to keep Berlin's price too steep for Soviet pockets. It would take the steadiness and quiet resolution of the American military commander (to date, exemplary). It would take the effort of countless lesser officials who, despite the vagaries of American policy, continue their little-publicized work of rebuilding Berlin trade unions, newspapers, subways. It would take, also, the resolution of thousands of American men & women who, despite their suburban comfort, belong to this same Berlin which is ringed by enough Soviet tanks and planes, thinly veiled...
...entirely "in order to make American troops withdraw from Korea simultaneously." The Russian-controlled North Korea radio broadcast an election-eve message to U.S. Zone Commander Lieut. General John R. Hodge: "You had better get out of Korea with your clothes packed . . . Why do you make such a valuable effort at the expense of your nervous system...
...that they are intended to find their own way through four years of college. The indifference of the Freshman adviser is so well known as to have become the butt of popular witticisms. The highly important Freshman year, because of this indifference, is far too often spent in wasted effort--there is nothing to prevent a student from over-specializing or from over-generalizing, or from thinking in terms of an altogether wrong field of concentration...
...White Russian birthday party-the picture comes to some kind of life. But on the whole the show has a kind of pathos that is not the kind intended; the spectacle of a lot of talented people, before and behind the camera, doing their desperate best in an effort which they seem clearly to know is foredoomed...