Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...minds of Authors Grafton and Laski, World War II is 1) a symptom that capitalist democracy can no longer solve its own economic and social problems; 2) a heaven-sent chance to ram through, under the guise of wartime necessity, radical social changes that citizens would never stand for in peacetime. Laski calls his program "revolution by consent." He proposes that the owners of property consent to what they cannot prevent...
...each other along the tiny station platform. Shortly after Herr Hitler arrived, another train pulled in. For the first time in four years of collaboration, Herr Hitler met Francisco Franco. The two strolled along a regal carpet, and behind them trailed dignitaries galore-Franco's brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, recently made Foreign Minister after a visit to Berlin and Rome; Foreign Minister Ribbentrop; Field Marshals Brauchitsch and Keitel; significantly, the ghost writer of Hitler's pacts, Dr. Friedrich Gaus, and many other wearers of braid and jack boots...
Built up into an octopus of politics and patronage holding the police, posts and telegraphs, reconstruction of devastated regions and immigration under the control of the Dictator's brother-in-law, Don Ramón Serrano Suñer, it was taken away from him and vested in Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself...
...already Opposition leaders, such as onetime President Ramón Grau San Martin, holding that Batista's occasional liberal gestures have always been for dictatorial ends, suggested in Cuban radio broadcasts that their only hope lay in another, anti-Batista revolution. As far as Washington was concerned, Cuba already had the right President. Contemplated was a possible loan to Cuba by the U. S. Export-Import Bank of $50,000,000 for the development of agriculture, mining, secondary roads, public works, tourism, hospitals, schools, with $10,000,000 earmarked for "balancing the budget...
...flew back to Madrid from Rome. When Don Ramon alighted at Madrid's airport the people of Spain had already been told that they were remaining nonbelligerent, had shown their relief by demonstrating in the streets. They were glad to welcome El Cunadissimo home under such circumstances. Don RamÓn reviewed picked contingents of the Falangist militia, then rushed home to see his sixth child, borne by Señora Suñer the night before. It was a girl...