Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world. On Europe's battlefronts Winston Churchill could see no guaranty of victory in 1944 (see p. 36). His only certainty was the vast uncertainty of Europe. Above all else he was aware of the hard, urgent job of winning a coalition peace and of keeping Britain co-equal in that peace: "It is upon . . . prolonged, intimate and honorable association [of the three great Allies] that the future of the world depends...
...latter is not quite so easy as 47 year-old Baker makes out. The audience is encouraged to heckle Baker and the contestant. If the audience thinks the contestant is not equal to, say, the $32 question, they warn him to pocket his money and leave, chanting: "You'll be sorry." Such challenges Baker must meet with his unrehearsed patter out of years of experience (beginning in Philadelphia, much of it in vaudeville...
...statesmen tried to form the world's Covenant that would end its preventable misery. "The task of this Commission," said Woodrow Wilson soberly, "is like that of the body of men who drew up the Constitution of the United States." The cost of their failure was on an equal scale...
Railway Ties. In Manhattan, the Pennsylvania R.R.'s 26-year-old brake-woman Jocelyn Wagner backed up her argument for seniority equal to men's: "I love the work. It's the nearest thing to being a sailor. ... I like the way the sun falls on those crazy little burgs...
...country had been brought face to face with this dilemma by an ill-timed speech of Lord Halifax, in Toronto two weeks ago. In it he had proposed that Britain and the Dominions share equal responsibility in the shaping of Commonwealth foreign policy. This suggestion, innocuous to U.S. readers, was enough to cause violent debate in Canada...