Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These of you who are alive five, seven, or ten years from now will have a task of reconstruction, the labor of creating a world in which men can live decently together," Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, told nearly 1000 Freshmen who jammed the main dining room in the Union last night...
...generation prepared itself to die if it had to. Many of us did," he went on, urging the present generation to look ahead to the monumental task of reconstructing a war-shattered world...
Stahley and his aides, Latta McCray, Bill Rawls, and Dave Colwell, have a large task on their in attempting to mold a first-year eleven comparable to last year's outfit. Many of these boys are beginning to imprint their class numerals on the Varsity squad already...
...Lord Macmillan's first task was to undo Britain's reputation for cleverness, he could not have started more brilliantly. Nobody could accuse Britain's propaganda of functioning smoothly last week. It was clumsy, amateurish, slow-starting, gave an impression like that of a sincere but badly staged show in which stagehands dropped things during big speeches, and the curtain came down at the wrong time...
...Communist Party, Stalin constructed under him a bureaucracy of secretaries, "a hierarchy of secretaries, a psychology of secretaries." For that and for the ruthless use of the secret police his talents sufficed, says Souvarine, for the wise reconstruction and administration of Russia they were pitiful in face of the task with which Lenin himself could scarcely cope. The implacability of a good bomb thrower (TIME, Sept. 4) showed itself inappropriate, to say the least, when Stalin collectivized agriculture at the attested cost of 5,000,000 peasant lives. Lenin continually and publicly admitted his mistakes; Stalin gradually would tolerate nothing...