Word: undergoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...badly cannot be doubted. Her neutrality is so precarious that the Führer's "last" chance for peace may also be Italy's last chance to maintain neutrality. Economically the country is in no condition to endure the belt-tightening that all European neutrals must undergo these days. Her typical products are not those that warring nations might buy. Her supply of raw materials is limited. Far from self-sufficient, what little peacetime trade Italy had is likely to dry up to the point where she can no longer pay for some of the essentials she must...
...towering Sir Ronald Lindsay was cold and haughty as only a really shy person can be. Since 1930 he held no single press conference until the pressure of the approaching visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth forced him to undergo what he looked on as a most excruciating ordeal. Newshawks found no news at the British Embassy, were invariably frozen swiftly over the telephone. Last week the chill...
...when the youngest camel was hog-tied out in the desert to undergo "the ordeal of loneliness" and get the bumptiousness bumped out of him, he discovered that mother was only soured. There really was a caravan of white camels and a new one joined it every time the youngest camel overcame a fresh temptation. His last temptation was to choose between a bag of ashes and a magic wishing necklace that would enable the youngest camel to wish his mother to have her own little oasis out in the desert. By choosing the necklace the sensible youngest camel broke...
TIME should be complimented for its exposé of the maltreatment Mr. William Randolph Hearst has been forced to undergo in the last two years...
Unless these shiny-eyed young hopefuls undergo distinct changes of mind, most of them are destined to become what they would now call failures...