Word: purports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Justice. Standing in an easy, stooped slouch and speaking quickly, Dulles told a crowd that had packed Amsterdam's Concertgebouw hall to its olive-green walls: "The Soviet Communist regime is not a regime of peace, and, indeed, it does not purport to be. It may not, and I hope that it does not, want international war. But, if so, that is a matter of expediency, not of principle ... It rejects the moral premises that alone make possible the permanent organization of peace . . . There is, says Stalin, no such thing as 'eternal justice' . . . Human beings have...
...winds of political expediency. It left a lot of questions unanswered (example: Why was it right for the U.S. to fight Communists' efforts to enter the Greek Government when it had lately been urging Chiang Kai-shek to take Communists into the Chinese Government?). Nevertheless, the total purport of the message was clear to the world: the U.S., realizing (however dimly and belatedly) that it was engaged in a deadly struggle with Communism (see below), had begun a positive effort to organize a non-Communist world. The world, knowing well that more than Greece and Turkey, more than...
...hence their route ran up the Atlantic coast into Hudson Bay, down Hudson Bay to the Nelson River, Lake Winnipeg and the Red River into Minnesota's lake country. There, while looking for an overland route back to Vinland, the party was attacked by Indians. The Kensington runes purport to tell the story...
...Rinsland begins by mentioning 19 other studies in the last 24 years (including one of his own) which purport to achieve practically the same object. Then, on the 600-odd pages that follow, he lists and notates the 14,571 words occurring three or more times in any one grade. They begin with a, which occurred 14,830 times in the 353,874 first-grader words which were studied, thus placing it in the "first one hundred of the first five hundred of the first one thousand" most frequently used words in that grade. (In the second grade, a occurred...
...Wagner Act does not purport to authorize a restraint upon freedom of speech in any circumstances. . . . Had there been such a provision in the statute it would have been invalid as in contravention of the First Amendment...