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...expand and intensify its efforts on all fronts. "The slow pace heretofore and the brazen cheating that has gone on in schooling, voting and employment especially, have forced the Negro to demand acceleration and still more acceleration . . . Law-enforcement officers will have to bring extra measures of understanding and restraint to this situation...
...terms of union were far stronger and more centralized than Arabs, or anyone else, had expected. There had been much talk of a loose association of nations moving slowly over the years toward actual unity. But the pulsing enthusiasm of the moment apparently swept aside much of the earlier restraint...
...movement until its demise in 1944, began as a critic propagandist, really--calling for the revival of the classical literary norms and the scuttling of romanticism: only later did he embark on a career of agitation for a social and political order which, in the harmony of its parts, restraint of form and moral decorousness, would nicely complement the reborn ancien regime litteraire...
Something for Nothing. The one restraint on many nations in their get-rich-quick desire to seize foreign holdings is their acute need to attract more foreign investment. Many of the new African nations, who have all too little to expropriate as it is, have pledged to protect foreign capital; so have the oil sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, which profit so hugely from the presence of foreign-owned oil companies. But in many other places, nationalization is growing along with nationalism...
...where the poisoned nuts lay buried. The noxious bacteria in the tea found the toxic substance in the acorns a perfect nutriment. The odoriferous gas you have inquired about is a little-known by-product of their metabolism, encountered only when the bacterial colonies are able to grow without restraint. I'll wager there won't be much green in the Yard for Commencement Exercises this Spring...