Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should it rain, the Crimson will cancel its aerial plans for a through-the-middle game, with large Paul Shafer spinning, but the coaching brain trust is hoping that it will not have to resort to this type of play, for the general pattern of practices this week has emphasized the wide-open, Columbia-game type of attack, with end-arounds and passes the keynote...
...frontiers and look into any country's factories. Cried Russia's Andrei Vishinsky: "Nobody will blind us and confuse us with beautiful words about the necessity of waiving part of our national sovereignty . . . The control agency would be an American agency ... an international monopolistic super-trust. [The overeager Russian-English interpreter rendered this as "superduper crook."] Our chest is strong; you cannot push us down. Our neck is not a chicken's neck...
...pattern of Communism's march, Dewey cried: "The tragic fact is that too often our own Government . . . seems to have so far lost faith in our system of free opportunity as to encourage this Communist advance, not hinder it ... Communists and fellow travelers [have] risen to positions of trust in our Government ... On that very day when a poor distraught schoolteacher ventured death to jump to freedom . . . the head of our own Government called the exposure of Communists in our Government 'a red herring...
Germany's old Paul von Hindenburg had offered some sound deathbed advice to his successor (according to some evidence revealed at a war-crimes trial), but up & coming young Adolf Hitler had ignored the warning "not to trust the Italians, and to keep peace with Britain...
Until recently, when it granted the union shop (to two A.F.L. unions), the company encouraged new workers to join, warned them that troublemakers who tried to undermine the union would be disciplined or fired. The union has reciprocated the trust, frequently advises management on promotions, often waives a worker's seniority right, if it feels a better man deserves...