Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis of the Mind. His failure to do so highlighted the greatest crisis of all-the crisis of the imagination. Civilizations do not fall primarily by a failure of force. They fall because of a failure of the mind and the instinct to survive. It was this failure that a Frenchwoman had in mind when she said to an American, in a sweltering Paris restaurant last week: "The fate of Western civilization is being settled now-this week. And there seems to be nobody, in your country or mine, or in any country, with enough imagination to save...
...planners for the 16 nations obediently set about to comply with Clayton's wishes. The full committee cut the estimate of dollar needs to about $17 billion, by the simple but uncertain expedient of assuming that U.S. prices would fall. France's delegate, dapper Herve Alphand, emphasized that, in any case, "the figures in our report are by no means a claim or a demand, they are merely an illustration [of what it would cost to reconstruct Western Europe...
Armenians have found it easier to get into Russia than to get out. The Turks (who love neither Armenians nor Russians) claim that the few who have escaped have brought a unanimous story of broken Russian promises. They found no houses when they arrived, and snow came early last fall before any could be completed. They lived in the open or in tents. Extra clothing and other possessions were seized by the Russian police...
Destitution, he said in effect, is just around the corner. Austerity? Britons do not yet know what austerity is. Britain's standard of living is falling-and it will fall a lot more. Britain's industries must do without vitally needed new machinery -but they must produce more than ever. Britain's people must do without nearly everything they make at home so that it can be sold abroad. Again & again, Sir Stafford warned industry's owners and managers that if they do not do what they are told, the Government will make them...
...taken into the Greek Government was probably the last political maneuver the Communists would make before stepping up guerrilla activities in Greece. Said one high-ranking U.S. Army officer: "Markos would probably be willing to settle for the Ministries of the Interior, Justice, War and Communications. But if we fall for that dodge after watching how it's worked here in the Balkans, we might as well pack up our aid program right now. It doesn't take long for that Communist foot in the door to start kicking everyone else...