Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Either Or. "In the event that the Congress should fail to act, and act adequately, I shall accept the responsibility, and I will act. The President has the powers, under the Constitution and under Congressional acts, to take measures necessary to avert a disaster which would interfere with the winning...
...owners because then army ordnance shipments will be at a peak. Of 1,400,000 Eastern homes with oil furnaces, 700,000 can be converted easily to coal, but only 40,000 have been changed so far. The ration plan proposes that home owners who can convert furnaces but fail to do so shall get no extra ration...
...main land masses of Europe, Africa and Asia (see map, pp. 34-35). Marshal Timoshenko. fighting for the Volga and the southern Caucasus (see p. 36), is also fighting to avert that catastrophe. So is General Alexander, at his gate to Egypt and Suez (see p. 34). If either fails, or both fail, "Jumbo" Wilson will find the enemy on his bridge. His task is to assume that both will fail, and to do all that can be done to retrieve their failures...
...question can be decided only by the U.S. and British high commands. But they must decide it now. If they fail to make the right decision-or, worse, if they fail in the power to make decision-they will be held terribly accountable at the bar of history...
...While we are fighting against the forces of evil, lawlessness and disorder in the world, we are primarily fighting to prevent the enslavement which actually threatens to be imposed upon us if we fail...