Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political situation in Germany continues to be fraught with peril. A putsch, not dissimilar from the Kapp Putsch of 1920, is an imminent possibility. The object of such a movement would be primarily to prevent the country falling into the hands of Communists, who have been engineering a plot to seize the Government for some time. If the coup d'état were successful, a Fascist dictatorship would be established, followed, no doubt, by the reëstablishment of the Monarchy...
...situation will be fraught with possibilities. As Senator Moses, Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee admitted: " It will rest with Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin and his friends." So the Administration, in order to pass its measures, will either have to placate the insurgent Republicans or secure the cooperation of a faction of the Democrats. In some cases the latter of these two courses may be the easier. The Democrats, for example, are much nearer to the regular Republicans on the railroad issue than is the La Follette group...
...diplomacy in backward countries, cause of war, seems destined to become more and more the great motivating factor of American foreign policy. Free competition has long since been abolished, and the struggle for wells, spheres of exploitation, areas of monopoly, and markets is becoming more bitter and more fraught with intrigue, discrimination, tariffs, and embargoes...
...link between the United States and other countries has been made by the establishment of a World Court for the arbitration of trade disputes. Hitherto the only way of setting these disputes has been by legal means fraught with all sorts of trouble, expense, and delay. By this new method all the difficulties rising from differences in language and laws, the great distances involved, and the limitations of communication will be done away with and the disputes settled quickly, economically, and justly...
...task is so huge and fraught with so many difficulties that only the most adventurous enlist for life, but even so, the whole conference is lifted to high levels and many who do not reach the heights catch visions of service that never leave them even though they follow the Christ haltingly and afar...