Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calder could still be persuaded. If not, the loud publicity would make it even harder to find another candidate. One trouble was that though the vacant Army and Navy secretaryships were still Cabinet posts in all but name, they were increasingly becoming mere under-secretaryships, under an unpredictable and strong-willed Defense Secretary...
...newly rich black-marketeers fling lavish parties in speakeasy restaurants for their geisha girls. Pomaded dandies and taxi-dancers foxtrot in crowded dance-halls to the melancholy strains of ikoku no oka, "the hills of a strange land"-a hit-parade lament about Japan's 400,000 strong P.W.s still held in Soviet Siberia...
...down the continent lining up pro-democratic trade unionists. He knew intimately the leader of every I.L.O. worker delegation, and though his role at the conference was only an adviser's, he was unquestionably the most influential man present. Even the Argentines, who had bustled in 37-strong, handing out Peronista tracts, wisely decided to string along with...
Beefy Philip P. Hannah, secretary-treasurer of the Ohio A.F.L., followed through with a strong speech for withholding U.S. technical and financial aid from countries which limited political and industrial freedom. "We do not care," said Hannah, "whether a sister country's regime is conservative, liberal, democratic, socialistic, oligarchic, libertarian or collectivism We only ask that it grant . . . that wide range of freedom which is associated with true civilization itself...
Helped by a fresh wind and a strong ground swell, the Magdalena slowly worked herself off her perch. Next morning, tugs took her in tow. As the crippled ship wallowed into the harbor, Rio stopped work. From the seawalls, from the windows of downtown office skyscrapers, all along the city's 20 miles of beaches, cariocas gaped. None anticipated the climax...