Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power with 77 seats in the 150-seat Storting. With a handful of results still to come, Labor was sure of an absolute majority for its intensified prewar program of a planned economy and socialized public utilities. The rightist and center parties lost ground. Communists scored the biggest gain: from nil to ten seats...
...world problems Harry Truman applied the good-neighborly gospel: "Do by your neighbor as you would be done by." The nations must come to realize, he said, that the welfare of the world was more important than any individual nation's gain. Said the President: "We are going to accept that golden rule, and we are going forward to meet our destiny, which I think Almighty God intended us to have-and we are going to be the leaders...
...time and told the story last week) wondered if Patton should not have shown more concern for his own soldiers. Major Baum, hospitalized and back in the U.S., offered an explanation which Patton himself did not think to mention. The 4th Division was able to pile through for a gain of 140 miles as a result of the confusion created among the Germans by Baum's gallant force...
When pants are plain, Then Labor will gain...
...Price for a Chance. If this report was true, Russia had in effect advanced her frontier to the Great Wall. The Chinese Communists were free to take any action they chose. But the Manchuria settlement was a gain for China...