Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To illustrate Lie's even-keeled forbearance, associates tell about the time last spring when U.S. radio commentators criticized him for his intervention in the Iran issue in the Security Council. Nervous aids urged Lie to answer the radio pundits, but he merely grinned: "These commentators, they certainly are...
Just why the issue has been allowed to die is a a matter for the historians--perhaps the intervention of other, more immediate problems forced out the tutorial question, perhaps faculty or student indolence is the answer. Whatever the causes, one of the most important educational considerations in the recent...
*A Jewish early spring festival commemorating the story of Haman, a sth Century B.C. Jew-baiter and Prime Minister of Persia's King Xerxes (Ahasuerus). The King finally had him hanged for his virulent anti-Semitism upon the intervention of Queen Esther, a beautiful Jewess. *In Ipswich, England, Tommy...
The Manchester Guardian summed up the feelings of many Americans and Britons: "Our mistake has not been in intervening in Greece, but in allowing the Greek Government to turn our intervention to its own purposes."
Intervention. In Gunnison, Utah, Mrs. Verl Anderson, about to kill a chicken for dinner, was tossed about by lightning, found herself bruised, the chicken dead.