Word: may
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave out a large volume of trade carried on by governments). Paul Hoffman made it clear that this measure had not gone very far to satisfy him. "There is no magic in words . . . the magic lies only in action," he said. "If there is a failure to act ... we may have a new kind of dark age in the world...
European leaders, stubborn and shortsighted though many of them may be, believe that the U.S. does not know what it is really asking when it presses for integration. They argue correctly that integration-even in easy stages-would cause a serious crisis in Western Europe before it could start doing any good...
...have come down a long trail . . . We may stumble, but we will get up ... Raising India to its feet means hard work. Not so flashily dramatic, but quiet hard work. We may be on a mountaintop sometimes, and again in a valley below. This visit here is like a visit to the mountaintop, and I shall remember it when I am in the valley below...
...Macao subsists merely by sufferance of the Chinese, who can starve the place and dispossess the Portuguese whenever they please. This obliges the governor to behave with great circumspection and carefully to avoid every circumstance that may give offense to the Chinese...
...Know My Love (adapted from the French of Marcel Achard by S.N. Behrman; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson) may run for years with the Lunts in it; without them, it would hardly last a week. Not since the perfection of the chocolate-covered peppermint has anything so thin also been so gooey. But with that delightful absorption in themselves that renders them oblivious to their surroundings, the Lunts are as arch, as expert and as enjoyable here as elsewhere...