Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even to suggest that there may be some rapprochement between Stalin and Trotsky indicates a lack of knowledge of this most important of all conflicts in the revolutionary movement; Stalin, the great organizer of defeats for the proletariat, who symbolizes National Socialism at the expense of the world proletariat and the world revolution, and Trotsky, who symbolizes revolutionary international socialism and the fight for world revolution. Even the most wily dialectician (and Comrades Editors, I have grave doubts that the second word in that description applies to you) could not reconcile these two diametrically opposed tenets of action...
...support my family. I am being given the munificent sum of $1,500 a year. I cannot understand why Congress fails to realize that the men of the Secret Service who occupy hazardous positions are entitled to adequate retirement considerations." Retiring Chief Moran, long famed for his lack of communicability, said he might eke out his diminished income by writing his reminiscences...
Briggs has had no labor trouble since the strike of February 1933. For four years, it has been outstanding among large Detroit industrial corporations for lack of labor trouble. No production has been lost in that period on account of any labor trouble in Briggs plants...
...Tuesday, Cousin Newbold was in vited to dinner at Fort Belvedere by the King. They dined about 8 o'clock in the evening and that afternoon the Bishop of Bradford had just uttered the fatal words about His Majesty's lack of church-going which brought Mrs. Simpson into British newspapers as the King's intended wife and occasioned His Majesty's abdication ten days later. Cousin Newbold found Cousin Wallis "still as gay, still as witty, but now she smiles more often than she laughs . . . diamonds and rubies . . . two orchids . . . bruised and sick at heart...
...biggest and costliest maritime strike in U. S. history dragged into its seventh week of deadlock. Characteristic of the lack of violence with which this struggle has progressed was the friendly chatting of Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast strike leader, and Roger D. Lapham, president of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., as they waited their turns to debate the strike in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium before a capacity audience of 15,000 (see cut). Characteristic of the stubborn determination which has made the strike a clash of irresistible v. immovable was each debater's proclamation that his side would...