Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations of the U.N. General Assembly. "We must take the offensive for peace," he added. "There is no iron curtain that the aggregate sentiments of mankind cannot penetrate." In this speech, and in his attitude at Paris, Byrnes ably and clearly demonstrated the Western Powers' determination to resist Russian expansionism. If one world was not possible, the West was reluctantly ready to go ahead with the organization of the areas outside the Russian orbit. One fact about the two-world solution would not be lost on Moscow: the Western half was still incomparably the stronger...
...Senate got an ultimatum. It had dawdled so long over the British loan (TIME, May 6) that one day last week Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley lurched angrily from his front-row seat and, with ill-concealed irritation, served notice that he would resist "with all the powers at my command" any attempt to sidetrack the loan bill for anything else, not even the draft law, which is due to expire...
...only praise and apology for Russia. Said he: "It comes with ill grace from certain world powers whose troops are stationed in every nation from Egypt to Singapore to make a world conflagration out of the movement of a few troops a few miles into a neighboring territory to resist an oil monopoly...
Chips to Cash. Until she reaches the point where Britain and the U.S. are really ready to resist, Russia will try to cash every chip she can while the world is still unsettled. The men in the Kremlin, who have an eye for history and long-range trends, know well that Russia can expand far more readily in the unsettled 19405 than in the 19505, when the peace treaties will have been written and the world's pattern solidified...
...Continent's poverty also served better than centuries of papal scolding to subdue the pre-Lenten orgies of Carnival. Fun-loving Italians, hungry or not, could not resist their first chance for many years to don strange hats and masks, plunge into a sea of confetti. But Germany's famed Faschings at Cologne and Munich were canceled. Said a Munich city official: "Fasching needs a carefree spirit and abundance; today there is an abundance of tears, worry and rubble...