Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the Baltic before a frost ... it is still in motion. But if it gets set, you will have to batter your heads against the ice blocks and wait for a second thaw." The warning was almost too late. In 1917 the hard-pressed British had had good reason to win Jewish good will, especially in the U.S. and the Austro-Hungarian empire. After the war they had equally good reasons, they thought, to keep their promises to the newly liberated Arabs. The ice pack was already closing...
...party line comes down from the offices of the Communist Party on the ninth floor, just above the city room. But staffers are not encouraged to visit the party's offices. Anyone who does is watched with suspicion by his comrades, even Worker editors. There is a reason: a visit to the ninth floor can mean that the visitor has caught a staffer in "capitalist error" and is informing...
...purpose-starting "a militant liberal" newspaper in New York City-"has been fulfilled." The Post Home News's circulation (350,000) was bigger than when she took over, and the newspaper (then losing $100,000 a year) was now reportedly breaking even. Friends suspected that there were other reasons: that Dorothy Thackrey somehow felt that the Post Home News had failed to gain real national influence; that she was tired and bored with the workaday job of editing. Whatever the reason, Post readers would probably be spared any more husband & wife arguments in print...
...previous dances have been held in the Agassiz Living Room, and there is no reason for breaking the tradition, Jordan claimed. Dean Mildred P. Sherman transmitted Jordan's decision to the prom committee...
...feels that the major reason for U.S. failure in China is that, in following an anti-Communist policy, we have blindly overlooked some local factors. "We need to develop a local approach to each area, in order to ally ourselves with the forces of progressive social change, rather than against them," he claimed...