Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France Spain received a diplomatic blow as the United Nations Political Committee reaffirmed a Soviet-sponsored resolution that calls on U.N. members to withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid and for the Security Council to act if Spain did not establish a democratic regime in a "reasonable" time...
...real trouble with the Thomas committee seemed to be the committee itself. Instead of buckling down to the problem of Communism where it hurt, as in the labor unions, it had gleefully pounced on Hollywood, where the publicity was brighter. It had failed to establish that any crime had been committed-i.e., that any subversive propaganda had ever reached the screen...
...that this policy of equalizing misery and organizing scarcity, instead of allowing diligence, self-interest and ingenuity to produce abundance, has only to be prolonged to kill this British Island stone dead. We are told, and I am told, that we Conservatives have no policy. . . . Here is the policy: establish a basic standard for life and labor and provide the necessary basic foods for all. Once that is done, set the people free-get out of the way and let them all make the best of themselves, and win whatever prizes they can for their families and for their country...
...with copy for a witty-and sometimes windy-department in the New Yorker called "The Wayward Press," a running commentary on the behavior of the daily (mainly Manhattan) newspapers. This week in The Wayward Pressman (Doubleday; $2.95), Liebling publishes a collection of his columns with enough autobiographical notes to establish his credentials...
...establish the family pew "in the sense that the entire family attend church or church school at the same time. . . . This recognition of God in the home ought to include a daily Bible reading and a prayer...