Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other 19 American republics, unwilling arbiters in the U.S. quarrel with Argentina, finally began to talk. The first comment last week was not promising for State Department hopes of joint action against President-elect Perón. Not one republic offered a feasible formula for drawing the hemisphere together again...
...When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can perfection be expected? It therefore astonishes men to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does...
...continuance of the present facilities for mutual security by the joint use of all naval and air force bases in the possession of either country all over the world. This would perhaps double the mobility of the American Navy and Air Force . . . greatly expand that of the British Empire. . . . Already we use together a large number of islands; more may well be entrusted to our joint care...
...grey, square State Capitol of Virginia he paused before a statue of Washington, then went in and addressed the joint Assembly, eloquently emphasizing what he had said in Fulton, paying homage to Virginia's history, slipping up on the middle initial of Robert E. Lee but remembering for the sake of his Southern hosts to change his prepared text from "the great American Civil War" to "the great war of the American States." The Virginians cheered...
...Passed a joint resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to General of the Army George Catlett Marshall (and members of the Army of the U.S.) and authorizing the President to have a medal struck off for General Marshall...