Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disastrous possibilities of another series of work stoppages such as shook the economy last year. But they are in this thing up to their necks. The strike is virtually their only weapon and, if they insist on getting what they are now demanding, they might ultimately have to resort...
...invented by Portugal's Dr. Egas Moniz in 1935, was introduced to the U.S. by Neurologist Walter Freeman and Neurosurgeon James W. Watts of George Washington University (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942). But doctors have kept quiet about it. The operation is a desperate last resort...
Loftily Kesselring defended his part in the business. "Reprisals and the shooting of civilians as a last resort," he said, smiling in the harsh light of the courtroom's naked bulbs, "are nowhere prohibited by international law." (In a general sense, this statement was true, although it did not necessarily apply to the case...
...Disinherited. The one significant trend in Latin America today is the crumbling of social oligarchies as the disinherited elbow into the political arena. Hidebound regimes can resort only to repression to conjure the Communist menace (in Brazil this week the Army proclaimed an anti-Communist week). But social-minded democratic regimes, that could offer the masses an outlet for their aspirations, had less cause for alarm...
...Quakers handle the Society's business without resort to parliamentary procedure. Action must be taken unanimously, or not at all; for each meeting a Clerk is appointed to gather the "sense of the meeting" on a given subject, reduce it to a minute for the meeting's approval. Quakers find the method makes up in unity for what it loses in dispatch. Its one big failure: the Hicksite-Orth-dox schism...