Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elliott also thought that the Soviet Union had never broken its word. While the United States and Britain repeatedly violated their pledges at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam, the Soviets faithfully observed theirs. . . . 'Can anyone here,' he demanded, 'name one instance in which the United States acted to further the cause of peace...
Since Sun Yat-sen's death I have done my best to conform with his every word, however imperfectly. . . . Now, at 60, I can tell you that I have no political ambitions. ... I fear I can no longer do the job as well as formerly. I must give the responsibility back to the people, and the people must learn to protect their rights. . . . But in the present situation, while the people are learning, I believe the Double Fifth constitution is not suitable. . . . Don't pass an inadequate or impractical constitution, lest China be harmed. Consider the rights...
Englishmen with a hard word for Herbert Agar are hard to find. U.S. Ambassador John Winant borrowed Lieut. Commander Agar from the Navy late in 1943 to convince doubting Britons that the U.S. would be not only the arsenal of democracy but a provider of men. Later, as London OWI head, tall (6 ft. 4 in.), handsome Herbert Agar did a notable job of helping to dissolve British-U.S. differences. He exhorted factory workers in their own language, patched up tiffs between British mayors and U.S. troops. On first meeting, people might think Herbert Agar was also soft...
Among the women in the adobe huts of town and desert, many of whom had never had medical help in delivery, word soon spread of a newfangled, less frightening way to bear children. For a $10 fee ($15 out of town), the sisters gave mothers a six-week, prenatal course at the institute, taught them how to make cribs and look after babies, attended their labor and delivery. By jalopy and on foot, Sister Theophane and Sister Michael (later joined by Sister Patrick and Sister Helen), traveled day & night across the rough desert, often curled up in sleeping bags outside...
...need to condemn with all our power race hatred." Visit with Gene. Goaded by Rabun, who had served in the war with the Marines, the Georgia Baptists surprised themselves by going on record ". . . that all Christian people of Georgia, particularly Baptists, speak forth with every ounce of energy by word, deed and thought against the so-called patriotic groups which . . . claim race superiority which is neither American nor Christian; that we hereby proclaim . . . that no man shall be discriminated against because of race, creed or color...