Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman had invited to Blair House 14 high military, diplomatic and congressional figures, including Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Chairman David Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission and Vice President Alben Barkley. Secret Service men shooed people away from the sidewalk out front, and forbade photographers to use their cameras. When the visitors finally left, after 2½ hours with the President, they were grim-faced, and their jaws were clamped shut by order of the President. Senator Millard Tydings told reporters: "You wouldn't print the story...
Diamond Jubilee. All around Chicago last week, the scimitar-crescent-and-star flag of the Shrine flapped from hotel windows. Hotels as far away as Waukegan got braced for 75,000 fez-wearing nobles from the 160 Shrine temples in the U.S., plus wives and children. This week, in sweltering Chicago, they will celebrate the Shriners' Diamond Jubilee...
Sobriety's rise had one interruption. Lloyd posed for a publicity gag shot lighting a cigarette from the lighted fuse of a small bomb. Someone had made a mistake: the bomb was no fake. It exploded, blowing a hole in the ceiling and taking away part of Lloyd's face and the thumb and index finger of his right hand. Only determination pulled him through the accident and the subsequent surgery. But back into the movie business he went. The intent, slightly bewildered, obviously virtuous face of Harold Lloyd began popping out at movie audiences in thousands...
...Rome suburb, Borgata Gordiani, where poverty lives in two-room shacks and walks the dirty, unpaved streets, young Father Giovanni Orlandi confronted the problem raised by the decree. "Many have told me," he said, "that they'd like to break away [from the Communists] but don't dare. The men who come to church are taunted and jeered by young hoodlums. Some of the women are even more fanatical than the men. It's poverty that makes them so, I guess...
...helpless captivity. The Kremlin succeeded in that policy with the once great Russian Orthodox Church, and it is trying to repeat the formula. The trial of Cardinal Mindszenty was part of the operation. The persecution in Hungary was followed by efforts to split the Church in Czechoslovakia away from Rome...