Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perhaps then, when traffic ground to a halt and commuters were late for supper, we could convince some of the bankers and landlords and businessmen who make their livings in the cities but live in the suburbs to take a walk through the slums and see the conditions which prevail...
Typical of the ineptness shown by American foreign affairs experts was their continued advice that the President should not postpone his visit to Tokyo. The same advice was given by Ambassador MacArthur. The experts reasoned that pro-American elements in Japan would prevail and the President could be assured at least a reasonably cordial welcome. However, one wonders what those same experts meant when they hoped that the Japanese police would take firmer action. Are we to presume they meant that the police should open fire on the mob in order that the itinerary of a globe-trotting head...
...with "achievement" as the highest virtue. It appears that some of them have sustained severe injury from the truly "ultimate weapon" of destruction-the weapon of fear. Nearly every one of them uses words or phrases such as "achievement," "conquest," "political and military struggle," "falling behind," "cope with Communism," "prevail," "intense effort." These expressions all suggest that our greatest need is reputation rather than character...
...Gaulle now seemed to be moving toward dividing Algeria into new political units organized around the country's chief ethnic and religious groups: the Arabs, Berbers, Europeans, Jews and Mozabites (an austere Moslem desert sect). Instead of countrywide self-determination, in which the Arabs would clearly prevail, De Gaulle would be seeking some form of federation of semiautonomous communities-a kind of Gallic version of Britain's 1921 partition of Ireland...
...country's destiny. I must, therefore, be obeyed by every French soldier . . . No soldier under penalty of being guilty of serious fault, may associate himself even passively with the insurrection. In the last analysis, law and order must be reestablished. The methods employed to make law and order prevail may be of various sorts. But it is your duty to bring this about. I have given and am giving this order...