Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa's Parliament Building, Walpole's portrait hangs first in the gallery of 42 British Prime Ministers. Last week a waggish newsman draped the frame with black paper, and pasted on a label: "Scratched...
...Besides, if any citizen of the U.S. had freedom to speak his mind at home, why should he be denied the same freedom in Europe? Congressmen were not alone in thinking that the State Department, instead of using its passport power to curb its critics, would do well to label them properly and let them talk their heads...
Western Europeans nursed no great hope that U.N. would be able to maintain peace. What else was there? One other idea that rank-&-file Europeans turned over in their minds now was Western European Union. So far, to the average man, the words were little more than a label; fewer people had heard the phrase than had heard, for example, of U.N. or the Marshall Plan. But Western Europe liked the sound of Western Union...
...went on to label Kinsey's statements about "right and wrong," "normal and abnormal," and the origin of the family system as entirely misconceived and misleading...
...called bipartisan foreign policy. Republicans wanted to make sure that whatever total amount was appropriated for ERP was really necessary, and that the administration of ERP would be in competent hands. They also wanted to find a way in which the Republican Congress could put its label on the plan...