Word: wartorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rives explained that the purpose of the trip was two-fold: First, "to help in the rebuilding of a wartorn European country; and second, to bring American students in contact with European students in a common, constructive, peaceful purpose...
...will not be able to keep Europe democratic or free if we and the British pull out. Europe this summer, and for a long time to come, will be too wartorn, too weak, too submissive, too morally bankrupt and too chaotic to stand on its own feet. Democracy must be encouraged and preserved-if necessary against a background of power. Or are we ready to despair and to give Europe over to the Titos...
...Well might Italians, hungry, wartorn, defeated, alarmed by Tito's claims and without even Orlando to plead their cause, ponder upon the aging symbol in the Palazzo di Monte Citorio. "Now," said one Italian bitterly, "we have only Sir Noel Charles [British member of the Allied Advisory Council] to defend...
...first contingent of the "wartorn" Class of '46 entered on a scene almost of peace. A few men drafted, the Navy Supply groups across the river, the small Electonics School, an increased interest in Navy and Mil Sci, no isolationists, and a co-ed full term summer school were the only alterations in the Harvard Scene. A week later 750 men entered the Naval. Training School, becoming the biggest service school at the College...
...Fogg conference used experiences in wartorn European countries as a criterion in the development of their safety guide. The new work will be used throughout the country in order to safeguard millions of dollars worth of art endangered by either enemy bombs or local sabotage...