Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reporting to the new Congress, the President found the state of the union good; to make it better he recommended all but one of the following...
...Presenting only the good side of the news...
...Each student should read one good book a year-the same good book...
...response to growing dismay in the United Nations over their action in Indonesia, the Dutch have reiterated their plea, "Give us more time and more credit for good will." The patience of the West, of the East, and of the Indonesian Republicans, however, was brought to an end by the Dutch "police action" on December 19 against Jokjakarta, the Republican capital. Since then, willingness to allow the Netherlands to find a solution for her former colony has vanished...
Essentially the issues remain the same today. Truce has been imposed several times by a United Nations Good Offices Committee, composed of the United States, Belgium, and Australia, but both sides have disregarded its directives. The Renville Agreement of January, 1948, did little but restate the ambiguities of Lingajatti and proved abortive. With the help of a complete blockade of Republican territory, the Dutch were playing on time--snipping off pieces of nationalist holdings and converting them to pro-Dutch states. On December 19, Dutch paratroops descended on Jokjakaria and captured the heads of the Republican government, saying that...