Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the next month the Communists would have to make up their minds between 1) guerrilla war, 2) a separate state inaccessible to Chiang's armies or 3) peace on terms in which a Chinese Government can function without a Communist veto (see below...
...completely capitalistic set-up. The Authors' Authority is not designed to control writing in America, nor is it even meant to engineer strikes and financial negotiations. The business of getting better pay and working conditions for the writer will remain in the hands of the various guilds which function now. The Authority is interested solely in the protection of authors' rights and property...
That democracy cannot function in a vacuum of public indifference must have become painfully apparent to all interested parties after Thursday's Student Council election. Coming as it did after three months of the most intensive publicity the Council has ever received, the election nevertheless failed to attract even the ballots of more than half the eligible voters, and from results, a serious percentage of those seem to indicate a lack of any genuine interest in the struggling student government...
Discussion centered around the whole problem of elective versus appointive offices and the manner of election. Distinct differences of opinion arose on these questions, one group holding that the function of the Council should be that of democratic political body while the other group felt that the expert advisory character of the Council should be maintained through appointments...
...killed by the gestape are Geraldine Fitzgerald, who looks like Joan Crawford, talks like Katharine Hepburn, and gives a restrained and sound performance. As the only woman member of "Applejack" she performs many indispensable tasks, such as working her wiles on German colonels, with admirable results. In fact, her function in the picture is totally professional except for a few mildly affectionate scenes with Ladd squeezed in between auto chases and gun fights...