Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...real danger might arise only if a yielding policy toward aggressors were to prevail...
Atomic Horrors. If the reported view of top U.S. military men should prevail, and the U.S. (with, as it hoped, the full support of the U.N.) should launch a sea and air blockade against Communist China, that war would have to be pursued in the full knowledge that it might go on for years, however it might be shortened by the help of anti-Communist forces inside and outside China. The war would have to be begun in the knowledge that Russia might come in too, which would lead to the atomic horrors of World...
...hundred yards down the river. There, women are allowed in rooms until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays and until 9 on Sundays. There are no requirements concerning chaperones or signing in. As the rules put it: "We do not attempt to describe by means of rules what behavior should prevail when girls are present as guests. The only official request is that the students conduct themselves in a manner acceptable to other guests and to the other students in the dormitory...
...kept in mind that women in a country with a Spanish tradition lead far more sheltered lives than women in the States. That the young ladies should have turned out in larger numbers than ever to register just a few days after the "insurrection" bespeaks confidence that order would prevail (as it did) and a high sense of civic duty. This may be relevant to the issue of political maturity. Carlos Cebollere...
...authority is seldom able to prevail at both ends of the field, and it takes resistance of a more purely physical kind to turn away the main assault. It is a long, and sometimes bloody, fight. The goalpost always falls in the end, partially through the pressure of its defenders falling back...