Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Background. Their private conferences at Yalta had a background that revealed Roosevelt's willingness to expand the Russian position in the Far East, where the defeat of Japan and the civil war in China were to create a power vacuum...
Short of conquering all of Germany for themselves (which they knew they would not do), the Russians most wanted a power vacuum where Germany used to be. Stalin did not, in so many words, press this desire at Yalta. He did not have...
...final Yalta protocol referred the reparations problem to a three-power commission-with the Russian demands to be used as an initial basis for discussion. Through the whole critical postwar decade Germany remained a power vacuum...
...excellent record as a member of the French Assembly since 1946 have brought about a reappraisal of his fatal premiership. Says De Gaulle in his recent memoirs: "In such conditions, the intelligence of Paul Reynaud, his courage, the authority of his office, were deployed, so to speak, in a vacuum...
...death of the paper left Brooklyn without a daily of its own for the first time in more than a century. Manhattan papers promptly began to try to fill the vacuum with Brooklyn supplements and special editions. But there seemed to be few newspaper jobs in Manhattan for the Eagle's 630 staffers on the editorial and mechanical side. Said Publisher Schroth: "The Newspaper Guild presents a malignant problem. This same thing goes on year after year until death comes...