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Word: embroils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Montana's Britain-baiting Burton K. Wheeler, used to declaiming that private U.S. investments in foreign powers would embroil the U.S. in war, now suggested that the British raise the money by selling securities to private investors. Few U.S. investment experts thought such an enormous loan could be privately floated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Eggs & Loans | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...country "unite and drive the British out," and asked Gandhi to write him a letter. The Raj, Jinnah said, would not dare to stop such a message. The Raj did dare. Jinnah commented: "The letter of Mr. Gandhi can only be construed as a move on his part to embroil the Moslem League in a clash with the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rose Petals & Scrambled Eggs | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...They have been watching out for some time. Last fortnight they published their observations in War Propaganda and the United States, a slickly written, epigrammatic, rather loosely organized book, in which the authors, with a great show of objectivity, attempt to expose the efforts of European propagandists to embroil the U. S. in World Wars I & II. It was sure to be read with interest by anxious Americans, startled by the Allied debacle, fearful of the future, above all fearful of being led by their noses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spectre | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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