Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also wanted the veto; few politicians believed that the charter could pass the Senate without it. Critics of the veto said that it would make U.N.C.I.O. helpless in all disputes involving great powers or their friends. Veto advocates contended it was better to bow to realities than to pretend that the great powers could be covered by the world organization...
Post proofs that brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those who profit by postponing it pretend...
President Truman's own words in his speech to Congress (see U.S. AT WAR) gave one measure of his world view. His innate interests and his knowledge were domestic; he did not pretend to know the world as Roosevelt knew it, and the world did not know him. When he spoke informally, in American idiom, the world was likely to misunderstand him. Apprehensive Britons, reading that he felt as if a bull had fallen on him, might mistakenly take him for a Throttlebottom. They would feel better if they knew that he had privately...
...Detroit's Tigers, still cocky because of their potent pitching pair-Dizzy Trout and Hal Newhouser, who racked up a record of 56 wins last year-still cannot pretend it isn't painful to have lost Slugger Dick Wakefield (.355) and Pink) Higgins...
...French Government gasped with alarm at the latest report on the nation's diminishing birth rate. If the trend continued, by the century's end 40,000,000 Frenchmen would dwindle to 25.000,000 Frenchmen. How long could the Big Fourth even pretend to be a Big Fourth...