Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FRANSISCO, October 4 -- The American Legion concluded its first big convention since Pearl Harbor today with the election of Paul H. Griffith of Union-town, Pennsylvania, as new national commander, and chartered a course for the coming year within the framework established by its out-going leadership...
...German people, led and encouraged into a true Christian way, with the German churches built again into the fiber and framework of Christendom, could make its good contribution to Europe and the world. . . . But we are waiting too long...
This transformation is difficult to explain, and Margaret Cole not only avoids it, but seems unaware of the challenge it presents to the belief that socialism can be achieved peacefully within the framework of political democracy. The present British government would tend to substantiate Beatrice Webb's earlier theories, but it is still too early to evaluate the permanency of her contribution...
That night, Bevin and his colleagues (in the front rooms) did not get away for dinner. Throughout the last weary hours of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference, Bevin and Byrnes had tried to erect the framework of an Austrian peace treaty. Molotov stymied them with a typical Soviet roadblock: he would not discuss the matter before 437,000 supposedly fascist aliens in western Austria had been expelled...
Hamilton's mystery, despite its premature denouement, is properly grim and gripping, and if the actors occasionally fail to inject into the lines all their inherent terror and sombreness of mood, a competent framework is still present. Making all the necessary preliminary reservations about summer productions, they have an interesting chiller on Brattle Street this week...