Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every year there will be a drawing among the Houses to determine which are to occupy the various available sections at the games. It is hoped that under the new plan persons who fail to apply together, but still want to be near each other or to meet after the games will usually be not more than a few rows apart or at least in the same section...
...foreign trade, by an encouragement of hostile or appeasement political factions and most important by an indefinite prolongation of a burdensome, conscripted war economy that the last bastions of democracy will fall without a shot being fired. Through their ignorance of, or inattention to, these questions the authors fail in their last-chapter plea for an isolationist course which is steadily losing ground everywhere...
...stop here and not any something about the morale of the British people on the one hand or the fundamental issues underlying this struggle on the other would be to fail to fulfill my obligations to you this afternoon...
...That is not the way to make democracy work and prove itself in the greatest test to which it has ever been subjected. To fail to inform the people, waiting for them to lead him, is not democracy but demagogy. To act as if the people had to be manipulated is to deny the very virtues on which rests the hope of democracy; it is to think that free men will shrink from the truth and flinch in their duty...
...Deal coterie. Into Henderson's hands he placed powers which include authority to fix priorities on all civilian supplies, to withhold supplies from offending industries, to use priorities on transportation, to fix and publish maximum price schedules-and to advise the President to commandeer plants which fail to cooperate...