Word: exert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominate as Man of the Year Mr. Average Citizen of London. It seems to me the heroism of the English people will exert a more important influence on history than will the contributions of any single individual...
...believe that defense against foreign aggression requires that we exert ourselves to the utmost to build up our own armed forces and also that we give all possible assistance to those nations who are fighting our battles by defending themselves against aggressors that are our enemies as well as theirs. We believe that developing democracy at home requires a continuous effort to improve the conditions, enlarge the opportunity and elevate the dignity of the masses of the American people...
...made a fabulous charge. Conservative Candidate Almazan, he told them, is just a tool of exiled Leon Trotsky. Together, he confided to the educators, the two aimed "to wreck Mexico's liberal education system. . . . Trotsky would like to go into the U. S. to destroy your institutions, also . . . exert his influence over all South America. You can count on that...
...Wechsler the most. Nazi propaganda they dismiss rather briefly as, on the whole, inept and ineffective. But they feel that British propaganda is not just another name for Empire publicity. It is a force dark, sinister, pervasive, ineluctable. Its strength lies in the fascination which the British upper classes exert upon the U. S. upper classes. As proof they submit a somewhat original interpretation of Anglo-American relations before 1917. During World War I, they claim, there was a deep cleavage in U. S. sentiment: "To upper-class America, the Allies truly represented civilization, for England's culture...
...Seniors, and countless thousands who feel as they feel, do not oppose necessary defense measures for America if they are necessary and only for defense. They want a democratic arms program, by selective conscription if necessary; not the building up of an amateur and priggish military caste which will exert a tremendous pressure for war. They want a pan-American solidarity based on democracy--not a hemisphere defense program superimposed on commercial exploitation of Latin America, a program which would inevitably throw our southern neighbors into the arms of our potential enemies. they want an industrial mobilization...