Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State could keep the Communists out, as the Communists had kept the Americans out of Russian territory. Or he could let them in, label them well and let them talk their heads off. He issued the visas-and a frosty statement that the U.S. "entertains no illusions as to the manner in which the Communists will attempt to use and manipulate the present conference...
...times, to dare new answers to new problems, and to use the power and strength and initiative of government to help citizens to help themselves when they confront problems beyond their resources and control." Both Vandenberg's and Dewey's speeches were attempts to pin a label on the party's philosophy, instead of letting the party's deeds earn their own label...
...mother, Mrs. Lewis Tallantire, wanted to know why, Alma blamed a sex lecture for girls at her school which explained how eggs were made. Mrs. Tallantire explored further, discovered among Alma's childish effects pictures copied from the school's blackboard. Said indignant Mrs. Tallantire: "[They] would label me as a dirty woman if they were found in my handbag." She compared notes with other mothers, heard that their daughters had lost interest in games and schoolwork, were talking "nothing ... but sex, sex, sex." Last week Mrs. Tallantire said she had 1,000 signatures on a petition protesting...
...means, endeavor to create a center for student activities but I ask reverently, in God's name, don't try to label it a WAR MEMORIAL. The fact that Yale, Dartmouth and maybe other universities are planning to raise millions for Activities Centers should not divert Harvard from the path leading to a truly inspiring project that will be plainly and solely a WAR MEMORIAL. Harry E. Warren...
...Merely a Label? India's representative on the tribunal, Judge Radhabinode Pal, filed a minority opinion violently dissenting from the majority verdict. Repeating the criticisms made by the critics of Nurnberg, Judge Pal said that there was no satisfactory definition of "aggressive war" in international law, that "aggressors" was merely a label applied by conquerors to the conquered. This was echoed by Manhattan's Daily News, which warned U.S. military leaders that they were already being labeled "aggressors" by Russia and that they had better win the next war if they wanted to avoid Tojo's fate...