Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like all Communist functionaries who fail the party, Moscow's seductive Dove of Peace was liquidated last week, or at the very least transferred to an obscure post. His place in the forefront of Communist world politics was taken by a frankly swooping bird of prey...
...life, however, he at least practiced what he preached. He was an old-fashioned liberal who was never afraid to act. He worked tirelessly in behalf of the poor of Hull House, or crusaded for Sacco and Vanzetti, or thrust himself to the forefront of the fray wherever he spotted a Cause. "As the philosopher has received his problem from the world of action," he once wrote, "so he must return his account there for auditing and liquidation." Last week, John Dewey. long ill in his Manhattan apartment, finally settled his account. At 92, he left the world still growing...
Penetrating Trickle. The Bulletin is quick to print such unpleasant facts or wage a battle for what it considers journalistic or scientific freedom. When the U.S., a year ago, slapped restrictions on the foreign circulation of U.S. technical journals, the Bulletin was in the forefront of the fight that got the order repealed. The Bulletin is well aware that the Russians read it to try to chart U.S. military and political thinking on the bomb. But Editor Rabinowitch thinks that the U.S. also gains by circulating the magazine in Russia. "It may be but a trickle of fresh water penetrating...
Calling Thomas the finest speaker in this country today, Watson added, "We feel that Norman Thomas has become a living part of the American heritage. He's been in the forefront of the movement for social welfare during the past 20 years. Others have followed his lead...
...great and ever-growing U.S. atomic bomber base in East Anglia." U.S. airmen occupy 13 major airfields in Britain. Five of them, in East Anglia, are equipped to service strategic bombers. Churchill implied that by providing British bases for U.S. bombers, the Labor government had placed Britain in the forefront of any future war between East and West...