Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation was not doing much worrying. This did not mean that the average citizens agreed with Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, pre-Pearl Harbor leader of the America First Committee, who concluded that Europe was finished, who suggested that 20 to 30 million Britons, Belgians and Hollanders should move elsewhere, and proposed to write Europe off except for some "charity." There was endless grumbling, particularly in the Midwest, about U.S. exports of goods and foodstuffs. But millions in the U.S. were resigned to the idea that something had to be done in Europe-and that...
...House's action did not mean that it had bought the Administration foreign aid program lock, stock & barrel. But it did demonstrate a growing interest in the stock. The House was ready to take another step-to send a 19-man House committee to Europe to have a look for itself and study the lock and barrel...
...part of the Molotov answer to the "Marshall approach," Rumania was being leeched of its last drops of democracy in preparation for a paper peace. A ratified treaty would mean withdrawal of the Red Army, and that might mean the downfall of Groza, the triumph of Maniu. To make sure that would not happen, Moscow's Andrei Vishinsky had ordered Groza: "Get your house in order...
Rayburn declared he could tie things up for two weeks with stalling tactics. That would mean wrecking the G. O. P. high command's plans for Congress to adjourn Saturday...
...directs Communist parties in all non-Communist countries to weaken their social systems and, if possible, to destroy them. In a nutshell, the evidence that the Communists intend to dominate the world boils down to this: 1) the Communists say they do; and 2) they act as if they mean...