Word: weaned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stettinius denies that F.D.R.'s health weakened his bargaining voice: the President believed that the U.S. could wean the Soviet Union "away from dictatorship and tyranny in the direction of a free, tolerant, and peaceful society." At best it was a naive hope for a man come to trade with a proved champion of Lenin's precept: "Use any ruse, cunning, unlawful method, evasion, concealment of truth...
What Mao did was to explode the hope that the Western democracies could do business with Communist China and thus gradually wean its Red masters away from allegiance to world communism. Mao announced, in effect, that Titoism was not for him. Said he: "We belong to the anti-imperialist front headed by the U.S.S.R., and we can only look for genuine friendly aid from that front and not from the imperialist front...
...Dodge mission revealed some of Washington's long-range thinking-a Marshall plan for Asia in which Japan might serve as the industrial workshop for a goods-hungry continent. Japanese production might help wean Asia from Red domination. State's blueprint also called for a simplified occupation, a garrison of troops for police duty only and advisory economic experts...
...this weekend will nevertheless be able to follow the Eli classic, blow by blow. Boston radio station WHDH (850 on the dial) will broadcast the game Saturday starting at 2 o'clock. The 1:30 o'clock kick-off will come floating Cambridge-way, however, through the facilities of WEAN (Providence-710 kc.), whose broadcast will begin at 1:15 o'clock...
Brown game, November 15--WHDR; WACE; WEAN. Providence...