Word: task
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Credo. At first sight, 73-year-old Konrad Adenauer does not look like the man for this staggering task. A smalltown lawyer, he became an able mayor of Cologne and an effective figure in the pre-Hitler Catholic Center Party, but he has no experience in national administration. He has often been accused of being provincial, and he makes no secret of the fact that he prefers his native Rhineland to the raw, "uncivilized" Prussians; once he cracked to a Berlin friend: "Why do you go on living in a town where the monkeys still swing from the trees?" With...
...Cologne banking firm of Salomon Oppenheim & Co., and, unlike many a Ruhr magnate, no Nazi supporter; he acts as Adenauer's economic counsel. The other is boyish-looking, 45-year-old Herbert Blankenhorn, a former German diplomat who served in the prewar German embassy in Washington; his task is to smooth Adenauer's relations with the Allies...
Within three years, the Atomic Energy Commission expects to be running one of the Navy's fast new submarines on an atomic power plant. Before summer, a task force will test late-model atomic bombs at the atoll of Eniwetok, the AEC's proving ground. Scientists have been quoting 1955 as the target time for cheap atomic-generated electric power. Three years of AEC work are nearing the payoff...
...that our consular officials in Mukden have been released and there is presumably no need to send an American Legion task force to the Far East, the State Department must make its decision whether or not to recognize the Chinese Communist government. The U. S. has equivocated for four years; the issue can no longer...
...believe that the whole task of the Church in America is one which must be performed by churches working in unity. Otherwise it will not be done at all . . . The slogan . . . may well be: 'Let those who can, unite...