Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Mariquita and Jaime were natural Loyalists. Their mother favored Franco. She made no attempt to reach the children, even when they fled Franco's approach, first to Chile and then to Argentina...
...Churchill ("Clemmie") sprinted down the platform. Behind her trotted slim Clement Richard Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, and massive Sir John Anderson, the Lord President of Council. Churchill grinned and watched their approach. Then he gathered his wife in a vast bear hug and bussed her on both cheeks...
...struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...
...encourage them. Instead of encouraging consumer expenditures, we need to apply curbs on private spending whenever it threatens to encroach on defense needs or to distort prices. Instead of stimulating consumption by deficit financing, we need so far as we can to reduce the deficit and to approach a balanced budget. . . . Instead of a tax structure designed to encourage consumption, we need one that will recapture for the Government a large part of the outlays for defense...
...ideas. Actually, the two team up superbly under the President. In policy arguments Hull presents a view shaped by years of devotion to a single ideal, freedom of trade, plus a sharp eye for political weather. Welles presents a view based on diplomatic technique, on a cultural approach, and on the relation of the problem to the Hemisphere...