Word: exert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These things are not harmless. Monuments . . . exert a force. Their malice is unpitying. General Grant gallantly overcame his enemies, but he will never overcome his monument...
...rcher Zeitung of German city workers' "incredible toughness." But he added: "It is quite clear that the Allies' air offensive has already affected this spirit considerably." And then: "Traffic in the raided cities is difficult and takes a long time. The smallest task demands an effort. . . . Why exert yourself, if you may be dead tomorrow? . . . [The people] are so tired they crave for the end of everything at any cost...
Even before the Americans arrived, Curtin had looked to the U.S. Less than a month after Pearl Harbor, and three months after he became P.M., he made the first of a series of pronouncements which frightened Britons stiff: "Australia looks to America. . . . We shall exert our energies toward shaping a plan with the U.S. as its keystone...
...other Western states can exact by their convention bargaining. So intent is Governor Warren on retaining this bargaining power that though denying he is either a candidate or anti-Willkie, he told a TIME correspondent last week that if Willkie should enter the California primary "I would indeed exert all my influence and all my effort against him." A few days later Mr. Willkie (who not long ago called Warren one of the nation's "great governors") announced that in view of the Governor's assurances of neutrality he had decided not to enter the California contest...
...Fellow doctors, if we do not exert ourselves, you will be mobilized in Germany, then shifted to the battlefields of the East where, in a German uniform, you will die for the King of Prussia. . . . Help to resist deportation by eliminating as many Frenchmen as you can at 'medical examinations'. . . . Prepare to stay in France in spite of the order...