Word: entailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans to relieve the depression but found herself unable to agree with any which were put into effect. . . . She came to regard the New Deal as totalitarian in design and stifling to enterprise. But her attention drifted presently to foreign affairs, where free and progressive feelings did not entail the embarrassment of dealing with facts close at hand. . . . Her estimates of the temper of America have been grandiosely inaccurate...
Beyond controversy was one point on which all Canadians agreed. There could be no subordination of Canada's sovereignty or her interests to those of Britain. The question was: Did Lord Halifax' brand of co-responsibility necessarily entail such subordination...
...vastly ambitious Russian scheme on the Smolensk front would probably entail strong flanking rushes-logically in the Staraya Russa and Orel areas. Although there had been local offensives at those two points for some weeks, they seemed to be spent...
...these preparations may have been solely defensive. Occupation of Spain by Hitler would entail a heavy risk. The adventure would probably require 25 divisions. The Iberian Peninsula would earn Hitler some 1,800 miles of vulnerable coastline. Since most Spanish railways are broad gauge and already taxed for internal needs, it would give Hitler a logistical headache. But above all, it would disperse his forces to duplicate a job already being done at the Tunisia-Sicily bottleneck...
...root of the trouble is a difference of medical opinion. There are many anesthetics, each with its pros & cons, from which a surgeon may choose. For abdominal operations, for example, some surgeons prefer a spinal anesthetic. Other surgeons avoid spinals because they entail a somewhat greater risk of complications (e.g., occasional paralyses, persistent headaches and other late effects) than anesthetic gases. Many patients prefer the new rectal anesthetics because they leave none of the aftereffects which ether usually produces. Some doctors contend that nearly all the unpleasant effects of ether (vomiting, nausea, etc.) can be avoided if the anesthetist...