Word: unleash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeper still. As a general proposition, I feel that the interests of a free society are better served by diversity, competition, and private initiative than by state-controlled uniformity--even when uniformity hides behind the slogans of democracy. It is amusing to imagine the storm Mr. Conant would unleash if he advocated, say, the nationalization of the steel industry. Will equal protests arise among Harvard's friends when the President questions the value of private activity in education...
...worst, if disorders flare up in Iran as a result of nationalization, the Russians may intervene, grab the oil, even unleash World War III. The Russians would not necessarily have to use the Red army to move into Iran; the northern border province of Azerbaijan (which the Russians tried to annex in 1946) might be used by Moscow to set up a "native Iranian" Communist regime...
...elected emperor, Constantine, can arrive and ease their plight. The prefect herds several hundred Christians from the catacombs to violent death before a packed Coliseum. Roman soldiers and gladiators chop off their hands, string them up by their thumbs and by their toes, and burn them alive. Then they unleash a pack of hungry lions, and the stands go wild. So do the lions. So does the movie audience. There hasn't been anything like it in cinema history. If only it were in glorious Technicolor...
...have come to the conclusion that the next aggressive movement by a satellite should be regarded by us as an act of war and we should then unleash such power as we have directly upon Russia itself...
...price controls." But, above all, what the U.S. had to do from now on would depend largely on what the Soviet Union did. "I shall not attempt to predict the course of events," said Harry Truman. "But I am sure that those who have it in their power to unleash or withhold acts of armed aggression must realize that new recourse to aggression in the world today might well strain to the breaking point the fabric of world peace...