Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, Bevin and his colleagues (in the front rooms) did not get away for dinner. Throughout the last weary hours of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference, Bevin and Byrnes had tried to erect the framework of an Austrian peace treaty. Molotov stymied them with a typical Soviet roadblock: he would not discuss the matter before 437,000 supposedly fascist aliens in western Austria had been expelled...
Many a turn-of-the-century Catholic found the Holy Father's blessing of labor unions hard to take. But as the West began to put out its lights and erect its barricades, more &. more of the hierarchy and priesthood began to study Leo's words. Even the most politically conservative could no longer ignore them when in 1931 scholarly Pius XI, in his Quadragesimo Anno, called upon the priesthood to select good Catholics for labor leadership and to undertake "intense study of social matters...
Dead or not, the spotty rises in the prices of basic materials and commodities were helping erect a tombstone over OPA. It would be hard, if not impossible, to roll prices back, even if OPA were resurrected. But not for weeks or months would the creeping commodity increases come out in retail price increases. Many a businessman who had pledged himself to hold the line would find that he had little choice if the basic pressures became strong enough. How strong had they grown in a week...
...resolution of the U.N.'s General Assembly passed in London). He said: "All of us are consecrated to making an end of gloom and hopelessness. It will not be an easy job. The way is long and thorny, but supremely worth traveling. All of us want to stand erect, with our faces to the sun, instead of being forced to burrow into the earth, like rats...
...riddle: what walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, on three toward night? The answer: Man (who crawls as an infant, walks erect in his prime, leans on a stick...