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Word: demanding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There has always been and always will be one capital only-Jerusalem the Eternal," cried Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion. "Thus it was 3,000 years ago and thus it will be, we believe, until the end of time." Then, bluntly defying the U.N. demand for Jerusalem's internationalization (TIME, Dec. 19), pugnacious Ben-Gurion moved the seat of his government from Tel Aviv to the Holy City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Till the End of Time? | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Steel, he said, should continue at 100% of capacity for another six months, then slip off to perhaps 85%. To some it looked suspiciously as if Big Steel, trying hard to make up the profits lost during the strike, was raising prices temporarily because of the strong demand resulting from the month-long stoppage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No. 4 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...ever before. One boasts of a "real soft nose and almost human ears." This one promised also to blow bubbles when given a pipe. They all can drink water this year (though none are built to retain it), and the manufacturers have provided "changes" for those unimaginative mothers who demand that their little ones behave just like them...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...while it looked as if the U.S. farmer could blithely ignore the law of supply & demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Plague of Plenty | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...said that Harvard can help American higher education to save its vitality if it will demand that the Navy exempt all NROTC students from the present loyalty test...

Author: By Robert E. Herzstein, | Title: University Groups Join To Fight NROTC Oath | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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