Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note of regret that the Empire was, indeed, in liquidation. "No one will doubt," he said, "the sincerity and earnestness with which the Cabinet ministers and the Viceroy have labored to bring about a solution of the Indian difficulty . . . with a zeal which would be natural were it to gain an empire, not to cast it away...
Among many Germans, the respect which the U.S. won by its armed might is already outweighed by the occupiers' later behavior. Said a German editor: "It is a pity you should lose so quickly what took so long to gain. But as long as your officers set such examples, you could not really expect your soldiers to behave differently...
This meant that the Treasury will not be able to sell any silver. Chances are that the Silver bloc, if it does not gain its objectives, will stall until Congress adjourns. It will rely on the crippling shortage to soften up opponents at the next session...
...last week got the sack. Also fired was the "careless editor" who passed the story. The London Daily Worker virtuously pointed the moral: "Soviet journalism, while hard-hitting, enjoys a splendid reputation for accuracy and clean, aboveboard reporting . . . the violators pay the price. . . . The world's press would gain immensely in prestige if it were to take similar action against the daily purveyors of anti-Soviet slanders...
Brandt, Kiesel, Levin, Frothingham, Ware, and Ecker are the singles racqueteers who intend to gain back some of the prestige lost last weekend. In the doubles, the following teams; Levin and Brandt, Ware and Frothingham, and Heath and Ecker, will be facing the Royal Blue...