Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masses of Spies? On scant (24 hours) notice the Russians last week bluntly informed the Western Powers that henceforth a new inspection policy would prevail on travel through the Soviet zone which encircles Berlin. Russian officials would board all military trains, inspect passengers and papers, pick over cargoes...
...contest between hope and despair. It was symbolized in two cities of faith, Rome and Jerusalem. In Roman churches, amid a fateful battle to save Italy from Communism (see FOREIGN NEWS), priests substituted olive branches for the usual palm branches, to express their hope that peace would prevail. In Jerusalem, the tradition?.! procession from Bethany to Jerusalem's gate was canceled, because of the new spurt of fighting in the Holy Land...
Americans, hopeful of finding some shred of sense in their Government's action, offer oil as a reason. But although Arab oilmen may make threatening gestures at first, in the long run Arab shrewdness will prevail. They realize that America alone has the price for their oil and they are hungry enough for dollars to sell the precious liquid to the United States. Oil alone is not the answer...
...square miles of Polish territory to Russia. Why did he? Lane, whose bitterness towards the administrations he represented permeates the book, believes that it was simply because Roosevelt wanted to win the Polish-American vote in 1944. He tells of a State Department official who tried to prevail on Franklin Roosevelt to take a firmer policy with Stalin on Poland, only to be told : " 'You may know a lot about international affairs, but you do not understand American politics...
...what shocks me most of all is the character of the preaching that seems to prevail in your churches. ... So far as I can ascertain, the paradigm of American preaching is: 'Let me suggest that you try to be good.' Moralistic homilies are still the order...