Word: crushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 1940 came the fateful disagreement over the postwar swag. Stalin demanded bases on the Dardanelles and staked his claim on the Persian Gulf area as "the center of the aspirations of the Soviet Union." Hitler balked. The next month he issued his directive for "Operation Barbarossa": "to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign...
When the Japanese surrendered, the Reds claimed the surrender was to them. The people ask: "And who will crush the Reds, who will beat them, Father? Tell us, for the love...
...early life of the nascent states in an armed, locally recruited militia. In the event of an Arab uprising, any native constabulary would prove hopelessly inadequate to keep peace among the warring factions. With this in view, the U.N. cannot neglect the possibility of a concerted Arabian effort to crush the new Jewish state. By failing to provide an effective security program the U.N. opens the door for bitter civil...
...replace the vacuum that characterized Ramadier's ten months in power, Schuman proposes stringent budget supervision, a wholesale stabilization of national currency, and an all-out war against Communist-inspired strikes. His purely economic solutions can be effected through prudent government alone, but when M. Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with unions that are controlled by a Communist party opposed to any U. S.-dictated recovery. Maurice Thorez has precipitated a 1,500,000 man walkout for higher wages in the hope that either an expanded currency or low production will push inflation...
Mourning Becomes Electra (produced on Broadway in 1931) was never a great play-let alone a great Greek play. But it is a play that hankers after greatness (and Greekness) like a schoolgirl with a crush on a bust of Aeschylus. By attempting to dramatize the Oedipus complex on a framework of Greek drama, O'Neill produced a travesty of Freudian thought and something like a parody of Greek tragedy...