Word: tantamount
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...Alaska, New Dealers hailed a straw in the wind. Chunky, young E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett ran as an all-out New Dealer for Tony Dimond's voteless seat as delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives. He won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) by a landslide against one mid-road and one anti-New Deal opponent...
...last winter (TIME, March 29). Last week Pope Pius XII appointed his successor: 44-year-old Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Auxiliary (assistant) Bishop of Birmingham. The little-known prelate will be the leader of England's and Wales's 2,400,000 Roman Catholics. The appointment was also tantamount to telling Mgr. Griffin that he will some day get a Cardinal...
...technicality: Russia claims representation for 16 Soviet republics on the Council Since these include the Baltic States, annexed by Russia as three Soviet republics, acceptance would be tantamount to recognizing their annexation-a step which even the Moscow Conference did not take...
...foreign foe hurled us Germans into such a gulf of disasters as has Hitler. The facts implacably show that the war is lost. Germany can prolong the war for a while at the price of unheard-of sacrifices and deprivations. The continuation of a hopeless war, however, would be tantamount to the nation's doom...
...demilitarization of Rome would be tantamount to an admission that southern Italy would not, or could not, be defended. To this extent, the Allied bombings of the Holy City and war capital had already brought victory...