Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounded innocuous-it took two nations to start a war; it was all right to be firm with Russia, but we must lead the way in creating an atmosphere of wanting world peace. This aim seemed "praiseworthy" to Dr. Mann, and he wrote that he would be delighted to lend his name, but did not feel he could help as an organizer. That was the last he had heard until the announcement appeared...
...February of 1941, President Conant went to Washington to support the pending Lend Lease bill before a Senate committee. He favored any and all measures necessary to defeat the Axis powers, saying that "there can be no peace" with the powers of totalitarianism as strong and power-hungry as they are. Before the bill was passed, 68 faculty members sent a resolution to Congress denouncing the measure as a needless curtailing of popular government. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Frederick Merk, professor of History, were among the signers...
...joined hands with Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, voted for repeal of the Neutrality Act, supported Lend-Lease. From 1942 on, the Administration invited him to periodical conferences on postwar foreign policy; from these sessions emerged the idea of U.N. At the Chapultepec conference in 1945, Austin did a sterling job of bipartisan cooperation for inter-American friendship. A year later came his appointment as America's "Ambassador to the World" at Lake Success...
Actually, the invaders were far from united. Returned Helgolanders, intent on making the island livable, scrounged among the rubble for furniture and firewood. They growled at Prince Hubertus and other intellectuals, who were too busy pecking out manifestoes and newspaper reports on their portable typewriter to lend" a hand. One invader, dubbed the Totengräber (gravedigger) by his disapproving companions, kept completely to himself, spent all his time rearranging skulls and bones in the island's ruined cemetery...
...Germ of Controversy." A divergence between Peking and Moscow over tactics and controls in Korea (or over the much more important prize of Manchuria) is certainly possible. If these differences, like those between Tito and Stalin, lend themselves to exploitation, it is a chance " that the free world ought not to miss. But, at the moment, any split between the Chinese and Russians seems to be more in wishes than in evidence...