Word: entailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer to a letter from the Council group (the letter was read aloud in a meeting of the new department), the department said, "There is strong sentiment for tutorial. . ., providing it does not entail sacrifice of our other objectives. (But) any revision of policy . . . cannot be settled for some weeks...
...Pacific's best landlocked anchorage, would presumably be acquired by what Truman called "arrangements consistent with the United Nations Charter." Postwar rights to Manus, an Australian mandate in the Admiralties which the Seabees built into a major fleet repair station, would be subject to negotiation, would undoubtedly entail reciprocal rights to one or more U.S. bases...
...their first three successful operations, the Guv'nor taught his Vigilantes a simple strategy: choose a vacant house by daylight,' install the selected tenant after dark. Padlocked homes were eschewed, since forced entry would entail a criminal charge of housebr'eaking...
...Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., to the Japanese commander on Okinawa. "You fully know that no reinforcements can reach you. I believe, therefore, that you understand as clearly as I that the destruction of all Japanese resistance on this island is merely a matter of days, and that this will entail the necessity of my killing the vast majority of your remaining troops. ... I will acquaint [your representatives] with the manner in which an orderly and honorable cessation of hostilities may be arranged...
...meeting did bring into sharp focus one important problem: the wide disagreement on foreign-trade policies. U.S. delegates were the staunchest and well-nigh only advocates of free competitive trade, even though they showed no unanimous disposition to make the sacrifices postwar free trade would entail. Virtually all other delegates leaned towards cartels. Britain's Sir Clive Baillieu (pronounced Bailey) favored some control by "continuous and public review" of cartels-which he euphemistically called "trade accords...