Word: afar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the Pacific islands where U.S. troops had broken the Japs. Last week, G.I.s brought in an especially interesting exhibit-a Japanese who spoke good English. He had been lurking around one of the camps for two weeks, had seen U.S. movies from afar. G.I.s grinned when he was asked his opinion of the cinema shows. Said the prisoner: "Lousy...
...small island where the only fuel on hand was cooking kerosene. Glumly the pilot tanked up, ran his snorting, protesting engine for 30 minutes to warm up, then staggered off into the air, his exhaust stack belching flame and smoke. The home base heard him coming from afar, "like a model-T Ford climbing a hill in reverse." But he wobbled to a safe landing...
...Americans are not careful, Professor Perry warned, they will find themselves insisting on abstract justice afar but perfectly willing to use power politics on issues closer to home involving questions more vital to the interests of the Western Hemisphere...
...Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, who presented Said with a Russian proposal for oil concessions in northern Iran (TIME, Oct. 30). Said said no, but Kavtaradze would not take no for an answer. From Teheran, where he lingered, he denounced the head of Iran's Cabinet. From afar the Russian press echoed his charges that Said was a Russophobe reactionary. Vice Commissar Kavtaradze was also suspected of stirring up Iranians to denounce Said...
...more profoundly affected modern thought than the late, great Sigmund Freud. Yet few close-ups of Freud exist. The father of psychoanalysis has usually been seen from afar. Last week appeared a warmly intimate portrait of Freud: Master and Friend (Harvard University Press; $2.50), by Dr. Hanns Sachs of Harvard, a survivor of the early group of six close disciples...