Word: strong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectacle. A squadron of Spitfires screamed down in mock attack over the blue-green waters of Victoria Harbor. Their target: an aircraft carrier lying at anchor amid a great clutter of cargo junks, sampans and merchant ships from all parts of the world. "If they know we're strong," said Sir Alexander Grantham, referring to Hong Kong's 1,800,000 Chinese, "they...
Just how ailing, uncertain President Chanis expected to bring the trick off was something of a mystery. Remón, the strong man and orderkeeper for every Panama administration since 1946, was in effect chief of staff of the nation's only armed force, the highly trained 2,000-man police corps. He and a staff of fanatically loyal aides had absolute control of the modern police headquarters, a combination fortress, arsenal, barracks, radio communications center and model jail (known locally as the Hotel Remón). By contrast, the only force directly at the President's disposal...
...policy ever made in the Canadian Parliament. In 90 minutes, he made it clear that the old Canadian policy of stringing along calmly with Britain and the U.S., developed and consistently followed by Mackenzie King, was no longer the rule under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. Canada had some strong opinions of her own and she wanted policymaking partnership with the big powers. Said Pearson: "The U.S. must . . . recognize [Canada] ... as a cooperating partner, not as a camp follower...
Last week, in a Manhattan hospital, death came to Bishop Manning at 83. For his final sermon as Bishop of New York, he had chosen a text (I Corinthians, 16:13) that might well be his epitaph: "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong...
There is some basis for the alarm which many of the French have evinced at the new program. During the '30's France listened reluctantly to British defence of a strong Germany against the East and paid a higher price than either Britain or the U.S. for doing so. Schuman will find little support in the French Chamber for ratification of the plan by rating the Russian danger over the German today. He must instead defend the success of the Occupation in disinfecting Germany as justification for her return to self-control...