Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though good neighbors and better friends, Secretary of State Byrnes and Elder Statesman Baruch had differed over emphasis on abolition of the veto in atomic matters. Baruch had insisted that it must be abolished; Jimmy Byrnes did not think it was all-important. Now Warren Austin would execute the policy...
¶ Pou Jou, whose windy, black Horse partook of China's ancient tradition of concise yet highly emotional brush drawing. Pou Jou's Horse laid special emphasis on "rhythmic vitality," the first of six canons formulated by the 6th Century artist Hsieh Ho.
"We face a Russia . . . [whose] leaders are conditioned in a philosophy which rejects as silly our Christian emphasis on the supreme importance of the individual soul and which looks with contempt on our scruples about the means to achieve a doctrinaire purpose. . . . The atomoic bomb, serious as it is, does...
Opinion on these measures was varied and led to many warm exchanges during the course of the discussion. Given especial emphasis were such proposed labor regulations as the Case Bill and the Ball-Burton Bill, whose mention aroused charges of "union busting" from pro-laborites.
To anybody vainly looking for the atom bomb's familiar and awesome mushrooming spray, Abstractionist Crawford explained that he had painted what he felt, not what he saw. His paintings, he added, were "a comment on the negative and positive expressions of contemporary society, with an emphasis on the...