Word: proclaiming
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...picked their way through the blackness to the central police station in the city of Panama. They were confident. The bribes had been paid, police officers had promised them help in breaking in. If they could seize police control, the plotters might arrest president Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, proclaim in his place Anibal Rios, former Minister to Peru, who was scheduled to return from that country...
...lifer had a technical inheritance problem, but the woman, after assailing the "non-intelligent and nefarious nature" of her confinement, went on to proclaim that "I am perfectly cognizant of my right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." She has tried to escape often enough to convince her of the futility of this plan, and now wants to get out legally. One of the students will investigate her case...
...hamburger steak were bad for "morale." If draftees kick about their lack of recreational opportunities, then "morale" is bad. Reading the wrong magazines, jitterbugging on a dance floor, or playing baseball of Sunday are equally harmful to "morale." And there is no lack of United States Congressmen to proclaim that union-organization and the right to strike are ruining the nation's "morale...
Faced by this feeling, Hitler might even try to force a peace. If he conquered Russia, he might propose to stop fighting. He might proclaim his long-awaited European Confederation, begin producing his long-touted New Order, stand before the world as the organizer of Europe. He might make trade offers to Latin America, count on do-nothing sentiment in the U.S. and Latin-American pressure on Britain to soften up the U.S. and Britain for appeasement...
...right, authoritative Catholic voice last week against any idea that Hitler's war against Russia was a holy crusade. Two months ago this same bishop-the Most Rev. Joseph Patrick Hurley, who was dispatched from a Vatican post to St. Augustine, Fla. last autumn - was the first to proclaim Naziism a worse enemy than Communism...