Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Policy. Of less distinguished origin than any President since Balmaceda, Juan Antonio Ríos, at 53, is a tough and dynamic fighter, a stubborn and lonely man, come up the hard way. He stands as supreme arbiter of not yet completed struggles. His specific plans he has so far kept to himself-except for the announcement that he will demand extraordinary financial powers and the right to concentrate public services. But by last week enough evidence was in to indicate something of his policies...
...That the elaborate tilework found on old Mexican buildings had its origin in the Moorish civilization of the Middle Ages...
...troops, French and Senegalese, with a sprinkling of natives. Of the 40,000 whites, most of the small fry are anti-Vichy; most of the Government, Army and other important people are pro-Vichy. Despite the nearness of Africa, the Malagasy are Oceanic (Polynesian, Melanesian, Indonesian) in origin, language and culture...
Coke & Chemical, known as District 50, took the field in skirmish order, leaping jurisdictional fences, rounding up new members for the Lewis camp. Said Kathryn blandly: "It is amazing how many things can be traced to a coal origin, with coke, chemicals, plastics and utilities as starting points." Workers in any of those materials, the Lewises reasoned, were fair game...
This gantlet-run through the wilderness is the thread on which the picture's propa ganda pearls are strung. Best of them is a notable performance by Anton Walbrook as head of a Hutterite sect, of Germanic origin, who practice a kind of Christian communism in Canada's vast wheatlands. To Lieut. Portman's guttural plea that the Hutterites join their Nazi brothers in the war for Nordic supremacy, the leader replies: "Most of us are Germans, but we are not your brothers...