Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people around the world who do not know your names, but who do know you by your cause and your great tradition. We and our friends found the courage to resist [aggression in Korea] two years ago. It is to press that courage home, to affirm and to establish the faith that a peaceful world can in truth be built, that . . . you have been asked to serve your country with the hope and promise of your lives...
Eisenhower charged a "famine or feast" policy to the Administration, which he said has encouraged a frenzied arms expansion with "disorder and duplication and waste." He said that while the draft continues "we cannot at the same time establish any form of training for our young...
...operation continues, carrier planes will strike at Bodo in northern Norway to drive the enemy back. Then the fleet will turn south to hit the aggressors near the Kiel Canal, while U.S. marines establish a beachhead in Denmark. By the time the two-week exercise is done, the imaginary enemy will inevitably have been defeated. The real one will have had, at least, a good show of strength...
...stand was no matter of purely academic importance; he, Wendell Willkie, and Fiorello LaGuardia were the last three witnesses called by the Roosevelt Administration to support its position on the Lend-Lease Bill in the Spring of 1941. The bill passed, and shortly afterwards, FDR appointed Conant to establish better scientific liason with the British...
...exchange of views was friendly, however, and everybody thought that the conference had been interesting, if inconclusive. Said Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun of Washington, D.C., "We have come not to prove each other wrong, but to establish our differences; not to win victories over each other, but to submit ourselves to the discipline of shared seeking." Said Sweden's Archbishop Yngve Brilioth, the conference's chairman and president: "The mere fact that we are here to clarify attitudes and learn each other's views at first hand will help spread the idea of common faith...