Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tito will show Russia that we do not like her expansionist tendencies (this, by some idiot logic, is said to lower the tension of the cold war). It will also, if the Iron, Curtain countries cooperate, stimulate trade between East and West which will help Europe get on its economic feet and help break down the barrier now existent between the two regions...
...fatal weakness of American foreign policy is the practice of mere anti-communism (or anti-Russianism, if you prefer). We supported Chiang's Knominatang government in China not because we like Chiang, nor because we wanted to back a winner, but because he was staunchly anti-communist. It would have taken diplomatic courage to have shifted to the Chinese Communists when we had a chance; or to have moved fast and incisively to construct a government out of the few "liberals" in the country at the time. But we couldn't possibly have gotten into a worse mess than...
...requested to raise the level of the trolley tracks on the Coop side of the kiosk, thereby removing the hollow that was turned into a sea of mud and water almost every rainstorm. Davis, furthermore, is well aware of the student's plight in crossing Cambridge Street. He would like to see as topflight installed at that point, and is working for one at present...
...complaints of Cambridge cabbies are concerned, Davis is wont to turn a deaf car. For something like 40 years, he explains, the hackies have dominated the Square. With rotary traffic, the days of reckless U-turns are gone for the cab drivers; they must obey the new laws as much as any one else...
...patches and windmills on the sides of the canals; the towns were frequent and quaint. In the morning we would be awakened by enthusiastic peddlers who leaned into our boat in an attempt to sell us fruit of round cheeses which you ate by carving out from the inside like a jack's lantern. When we washed our dishes in the canals watered with Rhine sewage bright-eyed kiddies and incredulous adults gathered. Little boys who could speak English always appeared at crucial moments to direct us to grocery stores or lead us to inns where we could...