Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosper only as a whole and nothing could be more disquieting and reactionary than partnerships or associations smacking of rival blocs. The momentous alliance between Great Britain and Russia was designed ... to associate east and west in a partnership of peace; and that still stands as the supreme test of European statesmanship. It is the condition precedent of any Anglo-French alliance and of any larger grouping that may follow...
...soon in London was a stalwart trusty of Europe's only functioning bloc -Russia's eastern grouping. Czechoslovak Premier Zdenek Fierlinger was coming to discuss British-Czech relations, and, perhaps, to test the political velocity of the new democratic wind blowing from the west...
...puppet troops, an unknown number of other collaborationists. They occupy a delicate position in the country's internal balance of power. These the Central Government's Ministry of Justice will sort out. "Justice, not leniency," it announced last week, "will be the guiding principle. . . . The test will be whether or not they were willing tools. All suspected of voluntary collaboration will have their turn before a court...
...were being built and the processes studied to make them run, another team of physicists was colonizing still another desert. In March 1943, a group led by Professor J. R. Oppenheimer of the University of California, gathered at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Their job was to design, assemble and test the atomic bomb itself. The pile constructors had struggled to keep their brain child from blowing up. The bomb men had the more deadly mission of finally blowing up theirs at the time and place that war demanded...
...Only by bringing about complete unity between the Government, the Army and the people can we find a way to pull through the present national crisis of saving the country and ensuring its future. The superiority of a people is put to the real test when its country is confronted with the gravest crisis . . . though the gravity of the situation is undoubtedly more than words signify...