Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unfaltering support to the United Nations," welcoming in "the new nations which are being formed in lands now advancing toward self-government under democratic principles...
...Support of the proposed North Atlantic alliance (TIME, Jan. 24), which the U.S. would join to "strengthen freedom-loving nations against the dangers of aggression," offering them "military advice and equipment...
...Cold. The President, in overcoat and silk hat, was sustained by a concealed, hip-high support, against which he leaned while still appearing to stand. He sipped coffee often-though he usually avoids the stuff-toasted his feet at a small electric heater installed on the floor. "It got so hot I had to pour one of those paper cups full of coffee on it to put out the fire," Truman said later...
...Never again," said U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, would she accept a compromise in the United Nations merely to win Soviet support for something everyone else had agreed on. For three years Delegate Roosevelt has tried her level best to get along with the Russians. Last week, in a speech at Washington, she conceded that it hadn't seemed to work. "I don't think I will ever compromise again even on words," she said. "The Soviets look on this as evidence of weakness rather than as a gesture of good will...
...freedom of the Church-this time, in the Russian zone of Germany, against the Communists. His fearless words, in & out of the pulpit in Berlin, have made him the outstanding spokesman of Protestantism in eastern Germany. By electing him, the Bielefeld delegates have thrown the whole weight of their support to the Church in the east...