Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attending to long run solution of its needs, partially paralyzed by hypnotic fear of the atomic bomb, buffeted by the impatience of the perfectionist and the realist alike, the United Nations has no certainty of a long and useful life. The people of the world would do well to renew the faith expressed by President Roosevelt just before his death. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our fears of today...
...Saturday afternoon and the Pentagon was virtually deserted when the top commanders of all the services crowded into Secretary of War Patterson's spacious office. They were there to hear Winston Churchill, who had come to renew his ties with the men he had known well during the war, to meet those he had known only from the communiques...
...years when he was one of the Met's great baritones. With Jeritza, De Luca had sung Carmen, with Alda, La Bohéme, and with Rethberg and Martinelli, Il Trovatore. When the Met's new manager, Edward Johnson, was approved in 1935, he did not renew De Luca's high-salaried contract. Throughout the war, De Luca was in Italy. His 30-room villa was untouched by bombs which flattened the house of his neighbor, Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's press aide. De Luca said: "For five years I was playing cards. I refused to sing...
...occupation of Gibraltar. For our part we have been preparing the operation in secret for a long time. . . . My unchangeable and sincere adherence to you personally, to the German people, and to the cause for which you fight. I hope, in defense of this cause, to be able to renew the old bonds of comradeship between our armies...
Prices were going higher; Chet Bowles would have to move up the beach. But there, unless Congress actually did refuse to renew his price controls when they expire June 30, he could wrap his robe about him and make another stand...