Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most powerful arguments against another loan has been the uncertainty that it (or the first one) could be repaid. Furthermore, proud Britons, if they must ask it at all, would far rather ask it as a helpful stimulus to quicker recovery than as a desperate last resort...
...airfield, a country club, a polo field, a beach club, a fishing club, hotels, shops, and some 500 houses, all furnished with the latest gadgets. Sao Paulo industrial interests, which are putting up millions to construct this sportsman's dream, expect it to be one of the top resort centers in the hemisphere...
...efforts have failed," Berine declared in an address prepared for a Washington area radio broadcast. "Strike action is being taken only as a last resort...
...university a quarter of a century ago, got down to party business. Because gringo eyes are on Apra, he warned, Aprista pupils must work harder than ever. Classes must be expanded. Discipline, already tight, must be tighter. Aprista workers, said Haya, must learn that strikes are weapons of last resort and must not be used irresponsibly, for "that would be like a traffic cop pulling out a revolver and shooting every time someone crossed the street on a red light...
...this dreary, low-level accomplishment, the Commission saw "the greatest danger" to freedom. The giants of communication would either have to put their houses in order, or people might one day ask the Government to do it for them. Obviously government interference, "a last resort," would be a remedy worse than the evil. But the press's own record in self-regulation had not been good. The Production Code had merely made the movies inoffensive (in one sense); the radio was regulated by the unwritten code of advertisers "who will not risk making a single enemy. . . ." The American Society...