Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times states indignantly that "For the most part the students thought that our policy had been to prevent immigration, to send them missionaries, and exploit her." It all depends on the point of view, and emphases differ. A number of Harvard Faculty men say they would give credit for those "errors...
...away!" All he could get out was "Bombs-." He did not live to see the bombs split the target. He did not live to hear, as the others in the outfit did, of Winston Churchill's message to Major General Ira C. Eaker, calling the raid "a brilliant exploit, the effectiveness of which the photographs have revealed"-nor to hear General Eaker's answering promise: "We will repeat these efforts many times, and on an ever-increasing scale...
...nations, great & small, must have equal opportunity of development. Those who are stronger and more advanced should consider their strength as a trust to be used to help the weaker nations to fit themselves for full self-government and not to exploit them...
...great opportunist, like all good soldiers, Rommel was ready to exploit any gain. And he was a gambler. If he were lucky and could crack Thala, he would have access to the Kremamsa Plateau, could pour troops onto that flatland, could drive against the flank of the British First Army which sprawled across the top of Tunisia. Then the whole Allied strategy in North Africa would have to be recast. This was the crisis when the weary young men braced themselves and Allied reinforcements rushed up to give them...
...believe that they will lose the war. Only among the upper classes is it said that Germany cannot win. Their policy is first, to defend the European fortress strongly enough to convince "sensible" Allied statesmen that "reasonable" terms with Germany would be cheaper than fighting; second, to exploit the fear of Russian Communism as it has never been exploited before. So far, every suggestion that Germany may lose the war has only stiffened the resistance of the German masses...