Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall Plan nations (plus Western Germany) are charged not only with building the framework of European cooperation but with allocations of U.S. help among themselves. If they had shown themselves unable to cope with the problem, the Marshall Plan would have bean in extremely grave peril. In Paris last week, with a sort of corrective lurch like that of a man who slips and regains his balance on an icy sidewalk, the negotiators reached agreement on allocations...
...Carter conceded, were "tragically true. But . . . anyone who tours the South with a representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People isn't going to find anything good there ... it [the N.A.A.C.P.] isn't interested in the evidence of improvement of relationships within the framework of segregation, for its dominant objective is the destruction of that framework...
...mixture of lecherous filth and vivid images drawn from rural life, its passages of whining literalness relieved by sudden bright patches of corrupt folk poetry. His ability at recording poor white and Negro speech was, in fact, greater than his ability to make creative use of it in the framework of a novel, which is why his best pieces read more advantageously as off-center anecdotes than as realistic narratives...
Shaffer hesitated. Then, while a policeman named Leonard Conn covered him with a Tommy gun, he jumped up on the truck's framework, lifted the canvas which shielded Daniels. The youth had five pistols and three rifles beside him. But he called, "Don't shoot! Tell me what to do!" and climbed out, trembling...
...That we should organize collective security within the U.N. framework...