Word: reckoning
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...last week, while the memory of President Aguirre was warm in the minds of Chileans, his party's candidate would have been almost a sure winner. If time further divides the Leftist elements and brings the Rightists together, General Ibáñez may be a candidate to reckon with...
When the first ghastly day was over, Honolulu began to reckon up the score. It was one to make the U.S. Navy and Army shudder. Of the 200,000 inhabitants of Oahu, 1,500 were dead, 1,500 others injured. Not all the civilian casualties occurred in Honolulu. The raiders plunged upon the town of Wahiawa, where there is a large island reservoir, sprayed bullets on people in the streets. Behind the Wahiawa courthouse a Japanese plane crashed in flames...
...agreement was recalled: if any of these three powers is attacked by an outside power, the three signatories must confer and decide whether the case comes under Article 3. Tokyo brass hats knew that any move south, despite Admiral Lützow's pleasing picture, would have to reckon with heavily garrisoned Singapore and, most probably, the U.S. Fleet...
...have to reckon with a gambler's desperation...
...reckon I'm about as close to cracker-barrel talk as the next one. I run a service station on Los Angeles' industrial southeast side. Washington is about half right when they say the talk is all isolation, defeatism and apathy. It's mainly apathy to Washington's foreign policy...