Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was plenty of method in Harvard's scoring madness as several of Barclay's pre-arranged plays worked to perfection while Brain defenders looked on helplessly. Two of these, both double-tips from the jump, were especially successful against coach Bob Morris' revamped Providence quintet...
Eager to push forward with a plan for dividing Palestine, the United Nations has yet to offer an acceptable method of insuring the partition's success. The authors of the plan place their hope for peaceful government during the early life of the nascent states in an armed, locally recruited militia. In the event of an Arab uprising, any native constabulary would prove hopelessly inadequate to keep peace among the warring factions. With this in view, the U.N. cannot neglect the possibility of a concerted Arabian effort to crush the new Jewish state. By failing to provide an effective security...
...taken the same way out. We have lived through ten years of hell-the most diabolical "witches' sabbath" ever put on since the beginning of recorded time. Thirty million people, men, women & children, have been starved, tortured, shot, blown to bits, frozen, gassed*-murdered by every conceivable method of fiendish cruelty -mostly at the hands of "civilized, enlightened, cultured, progressive, democratic Christian nations." And the end is not yet. We have with us many who talk and write glibly of the coming atomic war with Russia...
...control, how landscapes can best be painted as seen from the window of a speeding automobile. She sees to it that when he is painting a mural he actually gets to the wall and does not tarry somewhere along Juárez in an interesting discussion of the latest method of crime detection with the last policeman who arrested him. Then he is being Mexican to the core...
Baldwin charged that in the past year or two "Had Enough?" forces have buttressed conservative elements and made it increasingly difficult to fight for human liberties. He decried the Taft-Hartley Law, the method of administering loyalty checks, and activities of the un-American Activities Committeee as the most depressing aspects of this trend...