Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant military victories which many an American detractor of Chiang thought he never would. In the meantime, the Communists have become more stubborn. The delicate and drawn-out negotiations which General Marshall, together with U.S. Ambassador John Leighton Stuart, had been carrying out, have come to a virtual standstill. If any new presidential statement were issued, it should have reconsidered China policy in the light of current events. As matters now stand, a new and realistic statement will be difficult to draft for some time to come...
Nonetheless, the B.M.A. decided that the plan smacked of "slavery." Reason: while the bill permitted private practice, and left physicians free to stay out of the plan if they chose, B.M.A. argued that most doctors would have no choice but to become virtual employes of the Government. Said Dr. Charles Hill, B.M.A.'s suave secretary: "It is not a question of money, for $266,000,000 was dangled before the profession. It is a question of the freedom of medicine...
...last year Bridges was ready to demand a contract for the sugar workers, who had always been at or near the bottom of the economic pile. Imported by the thousands as indentured laborers from China, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, they had once lived in virtual peonage...
True union means not the "virtual absorption of all other Christians into the Episcopal Church" but the return of all Christians to the faith and practice of the Apostolic Church...
Yesterday's practice session was a virtual repetition of earlier workouts this week. There was no scrimmage, since too many of Harlow's possible starters have been banged up in previous contact sessions. A long passing drill saw George Boston throwing with consistent accuracy, and the punting practice featured, as usual, Wally Flynn, Bill Jackson, and Walt Coulson...