Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while he sought Virtue. So she heartlessly cast him aside and married a rich merchant in another city. Some 20 years later, when she came back to live in the beastly old castle, Virtue triumphed-by thwarting the Beautiful Daughter (now a beastly old woman) in her design to wreck her own son's happiness...
What, then, did Moscow hope to gain? In a word-time. Time in which to wreck the Marshall Plan on the shoals of disorder in Europe, on the rocks of the great U.S. depression which Moscow believes imminent. Moscow is by no means ready for full-fledged international war, but neither does it want peace. In the phrase of a top British diplomat, it wants a "twilight zone" between peace and war. Quite satisfactory twilights have been produced in Greece and China. It is time, in Moscow's eyes, for twilight to roll westward, along the course...
...Truman faces one initial obstacle that may well wreck his plans--a legislature dominated by the opposition party. By virtue of this fact he will be barred from using some of the most effective weapons in the Presidential arsenal--patronage, personal friendships with Congressional leaders, and the weight of his position as spokesman for a majority party. Presidential leadership will be effective only if its aims are identical with those of Congress. There is no indication that such is the case. Senator Taft is in favor of the Marshall Plan and aid to Europe, but on a scale far below...
Purpose of the meeting, as reported in full by Moscow's Pravda: to coordinate Communist forces against U.S. imperialism and wreck the Marshall Plan, which the congress called a U.S. device for the economic and political control of the world. They charged that the U.S. and Britain had fought World War II purely for imperialist reasons. Specifically named as "imperialist toadies" and traitors to the working class were Britain's Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; France's Premier Ramadier and Socialist Leader Leon Blum, Italy's Giuseppe Saragat, and Dr. Kurt Schumacher, German...
...explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby, he said. The contractor had laid a bet that he could wreck a concert by tele-hypnosis...