Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fill of office work since the war's end. For 18 months after his return from London, he was chained to a modernistic desk in CBS's main Manhattan office, as vice president in charge of public affairs. His aggressive, imaginative programming supplied much of the impetus that has made CBS first in the field of public service programs. Among the impressive list of Murrow-inspired projects: the Documentary Unit, CBS Views the Press, As Others...
...must further examine the value of UMT in terms of the United States' traditionally non-militaristic role in world affairs. Even if UMT would from a well-trained, efficient, aggressive nucleus for a future army to fight a future war, it could not heop but provide simultaneously an additional impetus to the complicated forces that are inexorably herding the world toward hostility, aggression, and unless halted, towards eventual conflict. The United States has traditionally avoided peacetime conscription. Consequently, the adoption of UMT would be tantamount to an admission that we consider peace more precarious now than it has ever been...
...program themselves. This is but one example of the sort of political maneuvering which, together with the very real and complicated economic problems involved in the Marshall Plan, makes it evident that any influence will be influence in name only unless it achieves an extraordinary amount of impetus. In a few short weeks, the Committee hopes to promote a rally featuring nationally important speakers, to precipitate a shower of letters and telegrams on Congress, and to set off simultaneous rallies in a number of other colleges. It will be something of a miracle if the Committee can accomplish this program...
Believing it "appropriate that the University which was the birthplace of the Marshall Plan should give impetus to the movement to save the Marshall Plan," the letter called for public action to fight for the "original purpose" of Marshall's proposals, which, it says, was "reconstruction," not "mere relief...
...band, the parade will swing out onto Massachusetts Avenue up to Bow Street. From there it will travel to Mount Auburn Street and down Mount Auburn to Boylston Street. Thence, picking up impetus as it moves, the parade will sweep down Boylston, over the Larz Anderson Bridge, and up to the steps of the Field House. Expected time of arrival there is 7:30 o'clock...