Word: fomenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inventories of armaments throughout a period of twenty years when perhaps they may never be needed at all; the private armorer meanwhile is able to keep his plants oiled and humming by sales not only to his own government but to foreign markers in which he is able to foment enough suspicion to sell large bills of goods. Here is the rock upon which every private conference that precedes official disarmament conferences has split. Here the circle closes. So long as we must have armaments we must lend rein and scope to the business methods of the armorers. What happened...
Hearst jingoists stumping for war under the pretext of preparedness are at fault from the beginning because an outstanding lesson of the World War was that preparedness is not a factor that operates to preserve peace but rather one to foment and encourage war. The real lesson to be derived from gruesome war pictures is a condemnation of militarism and its pseudonym "pre-paredness." Your article, a frank statement of facts, does well in exposing this perversion of the facts...
Striking, in view of Comrade Litvinoff's promise to President Roosevelt that members of the Soviet Government would abstain from fomenting Communism in the U. S., is the Soviet Encyclopaedia's flat statement that in 1929 Stalin flayed both the German and U. S. Communist Parties for their "rightist opportunism"-i.e. their failure to foment Communism with sufficient "leftist violence...
Abrupt and militant, it knocked into a Red soldier's turnip-shaped helmet the soothing assertions by Soviet publicists in recent weeks that Russia's leaders have abandoned the objective of her late, great Dictator Nikolai Lenin: to foment "the World Revolution of the Proletariat" by every practicable means including, when advisable, intervention by the Red Army. Order No. 173 is specific. It instructs every Red Army commander "to train each Red Soldier to be devoted in heart and in soul to the World Revolution of the Proletariat." The issuing of such an order at such a time...
...Groucho for dictator, Brother Zeppo for his secretary. Freedonia's collapse is only delayed by Brothers Chico and Harpo as spies for a rival principality. Groucho is engaged simultaneously in making love to and insulting the richest lady in Freedonia. He is also doing his best to foment war by abusing Ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) of Sylvania who makes the mistake of hiring Chico and Harpo. They enter his office armed to the teeth with alarm clocks, scissors for cutting off coat tails, cigar butts and assorted bells. Assigned to pry into the affairs of Groucho, they begin...