Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that had come the report of Defense Secretary James Forrestal. Returning from his conference with top military strategists in Key West (TIME, March 22), Forrestal had gone to the White House to present two sober conclusions, which added up to one & the same conclusion: the U.S. must arm...
...Amended the Neutrality Act to give the President authority to arm merchant ships in emergencies. ¶Received a report from Oregon's Guy Cordon, chairman of a Subcommittee on Territories and Insular Affairs, recommending statehood for Hawaii...
Novelist Thomas Mann, 72, carried his arm in a sling but was nearly mended now: he had stumbled on a neighbor's stairs in Pacific Palisades (Calif.) and fractured his left shoulder...
...Cornell know "Lib" Bailey, the nation's most eminent horticulturist, as an erect, white-haired man whom they used to see dragging strange bushes and branches across the campus to his laboratory, where he puttered and purred over them. Sometimes he would grab a visitor by the arm and whisk him off to his garden. There, showing off the blooms and blossoms he had collected from lonely hillsides and jungles all over the world, he would say that his field was the true internationalism: "My pinks speak all languages alike...
...right "That Winter" makes for absorbing reading, jumping from sections of tremendous flavor to impressions and episodes often mediocre. The plot centers upon Peter (his surname never appears) and his two fellow-careerist apartment-mates n Manhattan. Ted lost his arm overseas; shorn of idealism and faith, overwhelmed with wealth that is the one ingredient he needs least for happiness, he ultimately ends his life. Lew Cole has changed his Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office...