Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With Thy blessing, we shall prevail.... Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace...
Beardsley ("Pay-as-you-go") Ruml, visiting his doctor-father in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had a pleasant thought (for a local reporter): the American postwar standard of living can be 50% higher than anything the U.S. has ever known-if the right conditions prevail. The "right conditions": a national income of $140 billions, based upon 55 million people working 40-hour weeks...
World Affair. As usual, Mackenzie King tied up his objections to Common wealth centralization with his general idea that big powers ought not to dominate the world, and that a strongly centralized Commonwealth would be too prone to play Big-Power politics. Precisely that idea seemed to prevail at the conference last week. A closer-to-home reason for his stand was his conviction that Canada must be in a position to go along with her big neighbor, the U.S., even when the U.S. goes against the British Commonwealth...
Against the moderates stand the diehard and potent ultranationalists. In stormy sessions, men like General Kazimierz Sosnkowski have taken an adamant stand against Russia, have made their will prevail. All Poles have long memories of Poland's repression at foreign hands-Russian as well as Prussian and Austrian. But the Kremlin's long memory has not forgotten that General Sosnkowski and his followers are the remnant of the old anti-Soviet regime. Once led by Marshal Pilsudski, they had dreamt of a Poland reaching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, had refused the Curzon Line...
Back on the rim of the Mediterranean, Wilson must watch political developments in Egypt, while in Algiers General de Gaulle and his colleagues dream their several dreams of what power shall prevail in a liberated France...