Word: panacea
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Whoever got the job, things could not get much worse in Chile. Ever since the nitrate market broke in the early '30s, both economic and political conditions had been chaotic. Alessandri's social legislation of the '20s, a model of its time, had proved no panacea. Ineptness and bickering had marked eight years of Popular Front rule; plans to cut up big estates and increase agricultural production had been balked by rightists who still controlled banks and social security funds. The present murderous inflation had spawned a new group of profiteering capitalists, cushioned the old ones...
Supporters of world government do not claim it to be a panacea for all the world's ills. They do claim it to be the only effective means for preventing war. World government in our time cannot be deemed impossible until it is attempted. It will be attempted when the peoples of the world demand it. The peoples of the world will demand it when they fully realize the terrible alternative which faces them. By the methods of publicity, debate, and discussion, word federalists now seek to hasten that realization...
...labor legislation, including Harry Truman's pet panacea providing for fact-finding boards and cooling-off periods. ¶ All military legislation, including universal training and merger of the services...
...Next time, even the Japs must realize, we will hit them harder. But no amount of bombing and shelling can obviate the necessity of sending in foot soldiers to finish the job. The corollary is this: There is no easy way to fight a war. and there is no panacea to prevent men from getting killed...
...Japan's stormy petrels, Seigo Nakano was the stormiest. In his heart raged venomous hate for the U.S., Britain, Russia. On his tongue were words of violence and panacea which attracted the hungry and the malcontent...