Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is also the possibility--we should say probability--that Chiang could exert all the force of a gnat against Mao. Kuomintang officials themselves have reckoned that preparations will take a year. But even Chiang's much discussed "commando raids," could do little damage unless supported by American forces. If anything, Eisenhower's order will thus have little significance save balming the torture minds of those who demand action--any action...
John Kidder is almost completely paralyzed. He can move only his head and neck, and exert pressure with his right leg and foot. So the bottom of the rocking bed has a button switch that he presses with his toe to stop the motion, e.g., when the kids are playing in the room and a ball rolls underneath, and restart it. There is also a bulb-type air horn which squawks like a duck when he presses it to summon attention...
...three weeks he thinks Leverett may "look more like grown-up boys, physically speaking, but intellectually they are very mature." He completely approves the free boy-girl relationships here as any typically French man should (at French universities girls out-number boys): "After all there is no means to exert supervision on what they are doing; it is none of my business how they mix outside the lecture room." DAVID C. D. ROGERS
...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...