Word: remained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quantitative restrictions (i.e., fixing of how much of certain goods a nation could buy or sell), the breakup of tight little barter and preference blocs. .But the "backward" nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America insisted that, unless their fledgling industries were protected by fences, they would forever remain merely cheap sources of bananas, coffee or jute for the more highly industrialized nations. The delegates of these "backward" nations pointed out that it was only the protective tariff which had made 19th Century America so rich that it could afford to oppose protection. Argentina's Diego Luis Molinari...
...involved herself. To the extent that she falls for the 'line' she is a loser in this intricate game; but if she discourages her partner so much that he does not request a subsequent 'date' in the near future she is equally a loser. To remain the winner, she must make the nicest discriminations between yielding and rigidity...
...surrounding flora," dictated to his companion a concise summary of the local vegetation, and then said quietly: "Now I can go no further. . . . Will you find a place for me where I can lie down?" In 1930 John Courtauld, pioneer of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition, volunteered to remain snowed-in for an entire winter and to try "to approximate a state of hibernation" (he was dug out, still alive, next spring...
...scene of sentimental horror. When the Okhrana's first chief, Count Alexander Benckendorff, reported to the Czar for instructions, the monarch pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket and said: "Dry the tears of the oppressed. May your conscience and the conscience of your subordinates ever remain as stainless as this linen...
...must the displaced European Jews be forced to remain on the continent that has served as their slaughter-house, continually threatened by latent anti-Semtism? Why, after they have built a comparatively modern nation out of a wasteland in one of the outstanding social experiments of our times, must the Palestinian Jews be thwarted, not by their own inadequacies, not by the forces of nature, but by the duplicity of friends...