Word: rival
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began: "Every modern democratic nation is confronted by two pressing problems. The first is the preservation of the constitutional liberties which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them is to avoid taking action "which would undermine the fundamental structure of constitutional liberty itself...
...began: "Every modern democratic nation is confronted by two pressing problems. The first is the preservation of the constitutional liberties which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them is to avoid taking action "which would undermine the fundamental structure of constitutional liberty itself...
Last week, three days out of hospital after an operation for appendicitis, Eileen Herrick stole away from home, met George Lowther. Shepherded by a Daily News reporter, with two Daily News cameramen in attendance, they fled to Conway, N. H. by plane and motor. While rival newsmen gnashed their teeth in impotent rage, Romeo & Juliet wrote a happy ending (exclusive in the Daily News), were married at last...
Wags in busy, whirring Seattle joke about the woman who told a census taker: "I have three sons, two living and one in Portland." Easy-going Portlanders scorn their frenetic rival to the north, refer with somnolent pride to their "city where it's always afternoon...