Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be able to form a government stayed in the background. Ahmed Gavam had stepped down from the premiership six months ago under attack from the Russians (for the Majlis' failure to give them oil rights) and from fellow Persians (on charges of graft). He decided to take a rest, flew to Paris. Without the 70 to 80 votes which he controlled in the Majlis, neither Hajir nor anyone else could govern...
...least pick their brains. Others in the new braintrust: Editor Richard Lauterbach of '48, part-time adviser on layout and features; Lawrence Resner, who left a labor reporting job on the New York Times to be Crum's right-hand man; Managing Editor Jay Odell, a Nieman Fellow and former telegraph editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. PM Editor John P. Lewis, who had kept the staff together during eight uncertain weeks, was out on the street...
...advance what good or what evil a new discovery may lead to. But he does suggest a general attitude that may be more high-minded than practical: "To prove that they are not mercenaries . . . they might take a stand against the continuation of military research. They might urge their fellow technicians to stop making more bombs. They might indeed stop supporting war, either directly or indirectly . . . The people want our scientists to do more than damn the use of yesterday's weapons. They want them to stop making weapons for new wars...
...dollar-a-year' service alone. I propose that out of the best and most productive years of your life, you should carve out a segment in which you put your private career aside to serve your community and your country, and thereby . . . your children, your neighbors, your fellow men, and the cause of freedom...
Like many left-wingers, Laski has taken varying attitudes toward the U.S.S.R., ranging from piously articulate fellow-traveling to skeptical hostility (his Secret Battalion, published in 1946, was a blistering attack on the British Communist Party). But he has never for a moment lost his faith in the idea of a planned society nor his energy in tub-thumping for one. Much of his writing, like many of his public utterances, has been neat propaganda, smartly concocted and adroitly delivered. But periodically he has written studies in which his intelligence and historical erudition have loomed much larger than his slicker...