Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates liked Bretton Woods (TIME, July 31), but faintheartedly declined to go on record for it. But the meeting did bring into sharp focus one important problem: the wide disagreement on foreign-trade policies. U.S. delegates were the staunchest and well-nigh only advocates of free competitive trade, even though they showed no unanimous disposition to make the sacrifices postwar free trade would entail. Virtually all other delegates leaned towards cartels. Britain's Sir Clive Baillieu (pronounced Bailey) favored some control by "continuous and public review" of cartels-which he euphemistically called "trade accords...
...been a tense campaign, deeply felt and bitterly contested on both sides. But now the import of the nation's other battles swam back into focus again, like mountains seen after rain. There were the battles of World War II on many fronts, and of the peace somewhere beyond. And, as always in war, there was the personal struggle of thousands with heartbreak, loneliness and loss...
...Russian Government, temporarily "respectable." was permanently revolutionary. Its appeal, reaching far beyond its war fronts and frontiers, was, in theory, one of the noblest in the history of human hope - nothing less than the freeing of mankind from want, fear and suffering. But to safeguard its purpose, and focus its energies, it had organized one of the most resolute dictatorships the world had ever known, serviced by one of the most complex and efficient systems of secret police. In carrying its ideals abroad, it had developed a new tactic in power politics - the appeal to the foreign masses to organize...
...first camera was an aluminum-cased affair which was taken to the bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...
...sixth, and critical, winter of war settled upon Europe with chilling rains, hunger and uncertainty. It was different from any winter since 1939, for the focus of despair had shifted from German-occupied countries to Germany. But retreating Nazis left chaotic disruption, vital shortages, and something more portentous. Liberated Europe was like a sea bottom from which the ebbing of a foul tide had exposed strange, unfamiliar, disturbing forms-the forces of the social war of which World War II was a military expression...