Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...differing with respected colleagues such as SAC Chief Curtis LeMay, who last spring warned that by 1960 the Soviet air force would be the world's mightiest, Twining was taking into account information that had not been available to LeMay: what he and his aides had seen, heard and sensed in Russia (TIME, July...
...called to say it could not hold the story; by then a small early edition of the News was on the street with a brief bulletin on the case. Half an hour later the tabloid's big second edition bannered the kidnaping on Page One, ran a full account inside. MacDonald promptly called the other morning papers to release them from their pledges. The News, for what it was worth, had scored a clean beat...
...Japanese government officials rely on the Japan Times for significant international news; the dispatches from foreign embassies are often rewrites from the Japan Times. With five wire services and a battery of U.S. columnists, from Lippmann to Leonard Lyons, the paper also appeals to internationally minded Japanese citizens, who account for half its 78,935 circulation. The Times's temperate editorial policy is often an effective answer to the xenophobic views of other Japanese newspapers...
Long acknowledged as a master craftsman in an exacting trade, Bates writes with an English sense of place and social pattern; his prose often carries the gleam of England's pale sunlight. The title story is a neatly cut account of murder, told obliquely and in retrospect. A farmer kills the man he suspects of seducing his bride. Returning home after serving his sentence, the farmer finds his daughter now almost the same age his wife had been when he killed her lover. Slowly, and by indirection, the reader becomes aware that the daughter, too, could be seduced...
...Europe has a new lost generation, it is the children who were born and brought up during World War II. Author Faviell, whose The Dancing Bear (TIME, Oct. 4, 1954) was a warmhearted, nonfictional account of a hard-pressed German family's struggle for survival in the immediate postwar period, here offers a fictional study of a German family falling apart after a half-decade or more of peace and growing prosperity. The brawling, sprawling, 15-member clan that occupies the first two floors of a Ruhr Valley tenement house is known to its neighbors only as "the bunker...