Word: exertions
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...that his country "does not consider it dishonorable to conclude an armistice . . . after fighting against 19 powers for three years," and added that the war should end with "neither victor nor vanquished." But next day, as if to quash such defeatist talk, the Peking radio declared that "we must exert every effort" for victory, and promised that North Koreans and Chinese together would "smash the schemes of the American aggressors," who are really only "paper tigers...
...McCarran subcommittee, set up by Congress in December 1950, plunged immediately into a complex inquiry: Was the Institute of Pacific Relations infiltrated by Communists and their sympathizers? If so, how much control did the I.P.R. exert on U.S. public opinion and U.S. Far Eastern policy...
...time, John Dewey more than realized his ambition. A shy, shuffling figure, he probably managed to exert as much influence on U.S. education and thinking as any man of his time. Teachers and judges became Deweyites, and so did millions of ordinary men and women, who did not even know who he was or what his theories were...
...whatever their political sentiments' Old Grads on the whole do little more than vote. Only 17% are apt to make a campaign contribution; only 3% ever tried to raise money for a campaign; only 6% have held any elective office in recent years. The Old Grad seems to exert comparatively little direct influence on public affairs. Politically, he appears passive...
...toward the speed of sound, the danger they feared most was the beating they took in the "transsonic zone." When an airplane is moving close to sonic speed, shock waves'(powerful sound waves) form on its wings and control surfaces. They come and go, shift irregularly and sometimes exert enormous forces on the plane's structure. Many early airplanes that trespassed too far into the transsonic range were destroyed by galloping shock waves. The remedy is now understood: thinner wings and tail surfaces, and a quick passage through the danger zone. Above the transsonic, the designers hoped...