Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee on Structure & Procedures had quite a week. But there could be only one result: the Committee voted 30-to-2 (with 15 eloquently abstaining) to accept the Yalta formula as interpreted by the Big Five. On the critical test - an amendment by Evatt - the "blocs" split wide open. The Empire went neatly into thirds: Australia and New Zealand voted against the Big Five formula; Britain and South Africa voted for it; Canada and India abstained. Only five Latin Americans stuck with the U.S. Even Iran, which has played close to Russia, voted against the Big Five...
Expediency & Astringents. Minister Brown might have been discussing the twists & turns of the Communist line when he wrote: "The policy of Russia seems not to be based ... on settled principles, or to be guided by any fixed landmarks. Expediency is the great test. And what may be expedient today under a given set of facts, may be inexpedient tomorrow...
Berlin had held the Big Three together in war. Now the heads of the Big Three would meet in or near Berlin's ruins, to test whether cooperation could carry over to the construction of "a just and durable peace." The date of the Truman-Stalin-Churchill meeting would be some time between July 5 (when Britain elects a new Parliament) and July 7 (when election results will be announced...
...doubted that pitching would cinch the league championship. How it stacked up in quality against prewar slug ging would get a test in the last two-thirds of the season. The tester: big Hank Greenberg, who led the 1940 hitting pa rade with 41 homers, pocketed his Army discharge last week and planned to give Detroit a hitting as well as a pitching punch...
...supreme test of Mr. Lyttelton will be exports...