Word: foisted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 40 percent of the men belong to fraternities, all of them upperclassmen. Unlike some mid-western universities. Dartmouth has been careful not to let the Greek letters dominate campus politics. Fraternity men do not band together to back their own candidates for office or foist their whims on a neglected student body. In the tremendous camaraderie that is Dartmouth life, they fail even to develop the exclusive clannishness for which they are most often criticized...
...Congressional formula for forestalling the impending strike-wave and creating industrial peace appears to be to take over the NAM program, reword it, and attempt to foist as much of it on the unions as is compatible with the Republican ambitions for 1948. One of the major impediments to Congressional action is the dispute between Speaker Martin and Senator Taft as to whether the foisting should be done piecemeal or it toto...
...Hartley Shawcross wanted to know if the day-to-day activities of the disarmament enforcement agencies proposed by Russia would still be subject to the veto. Of course they would, said Vishinsky in effect. Then, said Sir Hartley, "let us not foist this humbug on the world...
Concentrated Privilege. As an instance of the divergence between people and publishers, Author Lasch cites the newspaper publishers' violent denunciation of the Government's antitrust suit against Associated Press "as a foul assault upon the First Amendment." Recalling the "frightening unanimity" of their attempt to foist this view on the public, he declares...
...decade of implacable struggle to foist its Weltanschauung on Roman Cathoolics, Nazi Germany has assaulted the Church with lurid charges. It has smeared the priesthood as a venal, immoral, politically intriguing, traitorous "black international." Last week came the most vicious charge of all: that the Church started World...