Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compressors. They are rebuilding damaged factories inside their shells (notably the big Songjin steel plant, which now produces about 20% of North Korean steel), and they have also brought in new factories and installed them complete. The reconstruction is in its early stage, but the Russian objective is clear: establish control of North Korea's heavy industry, and win with it lasting primacy in the new Red colony...
...Communists choose to try to get the Peking Reds into the U.N. on the premise that it is not an important matter, then they would need only a simple majority of 31 votes to establish the unimportance of the issue, the same number to put the deal over. Outside the Western Hemisphere the anti-Red China bloc could count on the votes of a hard core that includes Turkey, Greece, Thailand and Liberia, plus the votes, or abstentions, of whatever countries refuse to consider the issue "unimportant." A maneuver that would probably gather even more votes would be a procedural...
Woman of Low Repute. In 1931, however, Man Singh fell into a dispute with the same prophetic Brahman priest, over a property line that separated their two estates. In the midst of the dispute, the priest saw fit to establish a low-caste mistress in his house. The upright Singh, married and the father of children, was outraged. He charged the Brahman with polluting the neighborhood and demanded that the priest get rid of his girl friend. The priest refused; angry words flew; other Brahmans and other Thakores joined the ruckus. Before it was over, the priest and three...
...year ago. Mendès told the National Assembly flatly: "France must limit her objectives, but attain them; establish a policy which is perhaps less ambitious than some would desire, but hold to it. Our aim must not be to give the illusion of grandeur, but to remake a nation whose word will be heard and respected...
...knowing that the microphones would carry his words across the Rhine: "EDC is not only the best but the sole good solution . . . Alternatives to EDC differ from true EDC as ersatz coffee differs from real coffee ... In the unlikely case that France rejects EDC, nothing would remain but to establish a German national army alongside a French national army and other national armies ... It would be an absurdity of history and of politics if France, by allowing EDC to fail, should be directly responsible for the creation of the German national army...