Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turbid as the fine print in a lease, Delegate Austin announced that the U.S. had changed its mind on Palestine. The U.S. no longer supported partition. Instead, Austin declared, "My government believes that a temporary trusteeship for Palestine should be established . . .to maintain the peace [until] Jews and Arabs . . . reach an agreement regarding the future government of that country...
...which means that they had a preference for going to war to get what they wanted. Militarism is not one of the numerous moral spirochetes in the Communist mind. The Reds understand very clearly the importance of military power, but they prefer not to use it if they can reach their objectives by propaganda, conspiracy or blackmail. The Communists are not likely to unify the U.S. with a military Pearl Harbor...
...Vatican for personal loans of $450,000 and 90,000,000 lire; he mentioned interest rates as high as 45%. Incredulous, the Pope glanced at the clock which, together with a tall white crucifix and a telephone, was the only ornament on his desk. There was just time to reach Monsignor Domenico Tardini, State Secretary for Extraordinary Affairs, before Tardini's daily siesta. Shown the letter, Tardini raised his eyebrows. "Banking and industry!" he exclaimed. In all his long diplomatic career he had never had anything to do with either. "Very surprising!" he said...
...film-within-a-film is an animated cartoon done by two ex-Disney artists-with no Disney gags. It explains the processes of sex and pregnancy with simplified diagrams and a minimum of anatomical detail (at first the tails of spermatozoa were shown wiggling in their movements to reach and fertilize the ovum, but technical advisers feared that schoolkids might associate the wiggling with human swimming, break into nervous laughter...
...ability to force a choice between extremes. On the one side stand the regimes of the old; on the other the Communist bid to meet the pressing kind of desperation Europe knows today. Organized political forces advocating democratic socialism have repeatedly found themselves squeezed, outmaneuvered, so placed they cannot reach out for a mass following. No appreciable help has come to them from the United States. In the struggle between the Communist promise and conservatism, mass support has gone and will continue to go to the parties espousing Communism...