Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acheson was confirmed, 83 to 6. But Vandenberg's speech reflected a change in the bipartisan foreign policy wrought by the election. Before the election, a Republican Congress and a Democratic Administration had shared the responsibility for foreign policy. Now that the Democrats had their own majority, the Republicans, as one of their Senate leaders put it, had only a "secondary responsibility...
...Durban last week, white South Africans were privileged to view one of the ugliest representations of man man ever wrought-Sculptor Jacob Epstein's primeval Adam. In accordance with the Nationalist government's policy of apartheid (segregation), Indians and Negroes were barred from the exhibit. Roared big-fisted Sculptor Epstein in London: "The Adam was intended to represent the beginnings of all men . . . Under such Nazi principles of racial selectivity the subject of the statue himself would not be allowed to have a look...
...juices, it is a rancid abhorrence of people who coldbloodedly set out to do unprovoked good to other people . . . Any person who has ever looked to me for good works has only himself to blame, for my motives always have been obviously retributive . . . and any good I may have wrought has been purely coincidental...
...Human Welfare State. Even the cockiest delegates were a little awed as Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas told them what labor had wrought. Said Douglas: "The human welfare state is the great political invention of the 20th Century. Labor was its prime promoter ... All groups in society-farmers, business, and the professions-were its beneficiaries...
...gloomy, Gothic grandeur of Westminster Abbey, Britain's most hallowed shrine, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee stepped up to a simple wrought-iron stand and drew back an American flag from a shallow niche beside the west door. They uncovered a three-foot-high marble tablet, crowned with an American eagle and inscribed...