Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admitted that U.S. tariff policies could stand improvement ("too many [Americans] believe that imports harm rather than enrich their country"), but he pointed out that, within existing U.S. tariff barriers, British exporters still had ample opportunities. The trouble was that the British had not tried hard enough to exploit them. He put an accurate finger on one reason for British woes: British business had preferred to sell its wares to nondollar markets, where demand was high and Britain met only soft competition...
Other forces were hammering away to exploit discontent. On the extreme right, the fanatical anti-Moslem Hindu Maha-sabha advocates war on Pakistan. Three times in recent weeks extremist revolutionaries have tried to assassinate Nehru. Bengal was warming to extreme left-wing Demagogue Sarat Bose, brother of notorious Subhas Bose, the pro-Japanese strongman whose devoted followers still refuse to believe that he was killed in 1945 in an airplane crash (in his Calcutta house, they still keep his clothes pressed, ready for his return). India's Communist Party is one of Asia's smallest (about...
...commander in Berlin, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy got a topflight U.S. professional-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, wartime commander of the famed 101st Airborne Division, later Superintendent of West Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome for armistice talks with Premier Pietro Badoglio...
...King was delighted. He called the Amethyst's escape a "daring exploit," personally ordered the frigate's crew to "splice the mainbrace"-break out an extra order of grog for all hands. In Shanghai, the Communist press ignored the Amethyst's escape completely. Shanghai British celebrated discreetly. "We're glad they're out of it," said one, "but there's no point in crowing over it. After all, we're still here...
Given the sturdy talents of the two principals, there was a chance in this one for some bright comic touches. Unfortunately, Irwin Shaw, who wrote the screenplay, and Director Chester Erskine, who stumbled about in surplus dialogue and plot, failed to exploit the story's skimpy elements of suspense. Take One False Step sets out to be a sprightly whodunit. After the first reel, it turns into a sad case of who cares...