Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Urbane Anthony Eden soothed imperial passions. He pleaded that Britain must rely on the "three unities" of Empire, Western Union and the U.S. Later Winston Churchill declared: "There is absolutely no need to choose between a united Empire and a united Europe." But a split remained. "One class and one policy, that should be our slogan," a delegate told a newsman. "But we are not one class, and for split policy, look at that over there...
...could not afford to pay them. Grau's answer would have been a subsidy from the boom-filled treasury. In his inaugural address to congress, Prío announced that he had persuaded the country's businessmen to cut food prices 10% (thus presumably washing out the need for a wage hike). That might be enough to avert a bus strike, but such economically iffy methods were unlikely to help in settling the biggest labor dispute of all: how much Cuba's 400,000 sugar hands would be paid for harvesting the winter's cane crop...
Society has harsh punishments for a girl who gets "in trouble." If she is poor and ignorant, she may be driven to use concoctions offered by people like "Doctor" Charles Faiman. When she accepts such "help," there is an excellent chance that she will never need help of any kind again...
This is not all altruism: there is no union at Nellie's, despite the determined efforts of Dave Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union to organize the plant. Nellie has made sure that her employees see no need to join...
...nation's No. 1 military historian, is a past master at converting the legendary dead into durable heroes. He devoted 19 years to a four-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the untouchable Galahad of the Confederacy; historians of the Civil War were agreed that the job need never be done again. Another six years were spent on his three-volume Lee's Lieutenants, a study in command and military personality so lastingly pertinent that General Omar N. Bradley made it his major reading in the days before the European invasion...