Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech Ehrenburg admitted that "there is much good in Americans," then went on to recast Fadeev's insults in cleverer form...
Schuman's M.R.P. and Marie's Radical Socialists needed the Socialists' votes to form a coalition government. They agreed to the election postponement and voted for it. The Communists also wanted the elections postponed because they, too, had been losing strength, and they feared that Charles de Gaulle's R.P.F. would show gains if the elections took place...
...Lanny Budd books have been published or are being published in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Rumania, Sweden, Switzerland and (in a condensed form) the Soviet Union. With a picture of the U.S. which Europeans, especially Social Democrats, find entirely understandable, Sinclair is one of the two or three most popular American writers abroad...
...Norman B. Nash of Massachusetts was still more explicit: "Marxism, by an ironic paradox, is at some points nearer to Christian doctrine than any other philosophy in the field, and this makes its rivalry all the more formidable. It, too, is a 'heresy' of Christianity - a secularized form of the Christian hope, drawing some of its springs from the Bible and presenting something like a cari cature of [what] a Christian civilization stands for." This analysis permitted Lambeth to go beyond the Vatican's flat anti-Communist stand and concede that "in many lands there are Communists...
...years in unexplored territory and established precarious friendships with cannibals and tribes openly committed to the exclusion of whites. He had a good ear for their dialects, which he learned, and a nice inquiring eye for aboriginal customs. In one tribe he found what must have been the simplest form of courtship and marriage short of caveman seizure. The boy picked his girl, left a goat in front of her father's hut and got his wife. No words spoken, no fuss, no marriage ceremony. And if the bridegroom was too poor to own a goat, a bundle...