Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somber struggle between world freedom and world Communism, Nehru has professed to see only a big power rivalry from which India should stay aloof. In April 1948 he charted a "Third Force" course...
...Somber Spirits. One of the Assembly's grimmest moments came when Dr. T. F. Tsiang, representing Nationalist China's crumbling government, rose to speak. Said he: "During the past two years, while the dike from the Persian Gulf to Scandinavia was built against the flood of Communism, the Far East has been inundated . . . Can the United Nations maintain its prestige . . . by ignoring what has taken place in my country? . . . I appeal to the General Assembly to be brave enough to embrace the vision of one indivisible world and not to retreat to the false illusory security of half...
While most delegates would agree with Trygve Lie that the U.N. was more than ever "indispensable," none seemed to know what would make it less ineffectual. Delegates could face their problems only in the somber spirit of U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson's opening speech to the Assembly: "To the extent that we cannot solve them today, we must endure them...
...eight years old. He put himself through Indiana and Yale law schools at the top of his classes, settled in New Albany, Ind. to practice law and enter politics. He was licked twice trying to get into the House of Representatives, but he rode into the Senate in the somber days of 1934 with a straight New Deal platform and a vote-getting battle cry: "You can't offer a hungry man the Constitution...
...story moves swiftly to a climax in which Hero & friends fail, like Boy Scouts trying to crank a tank, to bring about the first sputter of a revolution. At its best, The Iron Hoop reads like a somber farce. Otherwise it has the curious distinction of being readable and interesting without evoking the slightest sympathy for any of its characters...