Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be a hard decision to make. Already reactionaries and Russo-phobes are utilizing the dispute to sow dissension between Russia and the West. The British have produced what seems a just and reasonable solution in their proposal to apply the principle of self-determination to the disputed areas, plebiscites to be taken to ascertain their loyalties. But the fundamental solution of the problem can be secured not merely through frontier rectifications; Russia must be given security from aggression by an establishment of that collective security for which Maxim Litvinov waged a fruitless battle throughout the Thirties. In 1919, Clemenceau...
...second stanza, Collinson again sent the disk home to sow up the game. The play was fast and furious throughout, and the tilt turned out to be one of the most thrilling of the current season...
...Nazi concentration camp: "You cannot have just a youth organization. You need older people to guide it. Politics is a strange thing, but it is practical. Here there is too much vagueness. I do not mean this Assembly is not worth while. It may, and I think will, sow a seed. But it will be a small seed...
What Elmer Holland made of it was a full-dress speech repeating his charges in more vitriolic terms. Cried he: "Daily these publishers rub at the morale of the American people. Daily they sow suspicion. Daily they preach that we are a nation of fools, led by rascals into a hopeless struggle. Daily they wear at the moral fiber of the people, softening it, rotting it, preparing us for defeat...
...lengthy indictment charged that 30 publications and 28 organizations (including the America First Committee) were used by the conspirators to sow disunity. Maximum punishment on conviction: 20 years in prison, $30,000 fine...