Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Only in the conference of the Big Three foreign ministers, who were dragging their feet on the question of German rearmament (see INTERNATIONAL), did the old hesitations and half-efforts persist. Otherwise, for the first time in many months, the nation could begin to feel that the track was clear and the train crew knew where it was going...
...laugh at the "commissars" whom the Communists take good care to have with their military forces, and we refuse to see that with our enemies the "politics" comes first, the fighting second. We, in short, persist in thinking of political warfare as something to be practiced by rear-area pamphleteers and tolerated by the fellows doing the real fighting. However we may fare again in Europe with our chronic neglect of the political aspects of war, we cannot get by with it in Asia. That is the lesson of Korea...
...committee asked the O.A.S. to create a "watchdog" commission to keep an eye on the Caribbean. It also warned the O.A.S. that "disturbed relations" would persist in the Caribbean unless the organization took definite action on the committee's recommendations...
...city council warned: "Who favors this disgraceful business will fall into disdain. The council will expose to public judgment all those who persist in these immoral actions." Most of Celle's citizens paid no attention...
Other areas the President thought worth scouting for more revenue: a few tax-exempt educational and charitable organizations which persist in "glaring abuses" of the exemptions, life insurance companies which "have unintentionally been relieved of income taxes since 1946," and short-lived Hollywood corporations de signed to dodge paying big taxes. He wanted to trim corporation income taxes in the bracket between $25,000 and $50,000 a year, proposed a "moderate" tax increase on any profits that jutted beyond the $50,000 level...