Word: lag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common law, must grow from unprecedented, bold judicial actions. Said he: "[The defendants] are living symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power. . . . Must such wrongs either be ignored or redressed in hot blood? . .. [The defendants hope] that international law will lag so far behind the moral sense of mankind that conduct which is a crime in the moral sense must be regarded as innocent...
...communications were not opened, all China would suffer. The great popular migration home would be delayed, galloping inflation would be harder to check, industrial reconstruction would lag. Above all, a bleak, fuelless winter would lie ahead. For North China's railways tap the nation's great coal mines. Only one of these-the Kailan fields, lying on the line between Tientsin and Chinwangtao -was open last week. U.S. planes and Central Government guards were on the alert to bar any Communist attempt to block Kailan shipments...
When heads of colleges are only 130 years in the lag of bright undergraduates, the world need not despair. To Sir William, the honor of this age; to Shelley, the honor of all ages...
Threatened with a potential lag in essential war production, grave-faced officials of WMC, WPB, Selective Service and Army & Navy met hurriedly last week in a Washington office. Their problem: to devise rapid ways & means of giving the nation a new "sense of urgency." The trouble was partly of their own making. For two full years the congenitally optimistic U.S. people had been soaking up the sunny predictions of official and semiofficial spokesmen. Samples...
Following the 1943 boom and the tax-inspired buying of last spring, sales of fur coats are off sharply all over the U.S., currently running about 15% below 1943. Response to the annual August fur promotions was sluggish; and in all parts of the country, volume continued to lag in September and October...