Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high hilltop, every day, all day long, an R.A.F. lieutenant equipped with binoculars and telephone sits on a fuel can, spotting aircraft. Two other spotters are Partisan girls roosting on the island's only snow-clad peak. When planes approach they signal by firing their rifles, and these signals are relayed in like manner to battle headquarters, which sounds a siren to alert the island's anti-aircraft gunners...
...visual area and the rest of the brain - the image spread out over a wider area, into parts of the brain not primarily concerned with sight. Dr. Adrian suggests that this spreading activity in the brain represents the reaction of the brain cells to the image, i.e., an approach to thinking. But his recordings of this complex process are so confusing and difficult to interpret that "the present technique of recording brain events, by oscillographs connected with electrodes on the head, is not likely to lead very far." Nonetheless, Dr. Adrian is sure, on the basis of progress already made...
...editorial Editor Labarthe, who now holds aloof from any French faction, wrote of resistance inside France: "We know that strong roots nourished by blood are growing, some day to break through to the light. . . . Four years of silence . . . have unconsciously changed people's approach to almost every problem." Added he, in a passage obviously aimed at Charles de Gaulle, among others: ". . . Men who have gone through the fire of defeat will feel differently from those who have escaped. . . . The men inside Europe will not show enthusiasm when those who lived in foreign lands try to judge and direct internal...
...from Nazi Europe and a fervent Hitler-hater. But his outward manner suggests the average American idea of the typical Nazi. He fixes his orchestra with a thick-spectacled stare that would do credit to a cinema Prussian. Some conductors get their effects by kindness and psychological subtlety; some approach the technique of a lion tamer. George Szell is among the latter. For him the Met's lions jump through their hoops under dazzling control...
...Jones is realist enough to know that moral desire is not enough to constitute a program, and Professor Becker does not kick the fellow who is ready with the blueprint out his Cornell study window. Different in temper and approach, Becker and Jones can nevertheless be reconciled and harmonized. They want the same thing: a four-power agreement among the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans and the British. They want the agreement to be moral in content. Whether they reckon with the possibility that moral unity may prove to be a pious dream in a world that includes both communists...