Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a British prison commissioner, Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, visited a model U.S. reformatory in 1902, he first became convinced that a bad apple can spoil a barrel. Back in England, he yanked some young offenders out of the regular prisons, moved them away from the older, rottener apples to a Kentish village called Borstal. There he began an experiment in straightening out youngsters gone wrong. Its basic idea: "the gospel of work...
...candidates for public office can be nominated only by the Communist Party and organizations which, to all intents & purposes, it controls). Many of the other 143 are relatively democratic in the Western sense. But Russians wryly say: "Lozhka dyegtya v bochke myeda" (A spoonful of tar spoils a barrel of honey...
Henry Wallace and his angels had challenged the forces of darkness to battle (TIME, Nov. 25), and now he was ready to unlimber his new weapon. This week the first issue of the New Republic under his editorship hit the stands, looking only mildly destructive. The barrel was shinier (a cover in color), but the bore was the same; the ammunition more plentiful (64 pages instead of 32), but generally of the old caliber. One cheering note for the money-losing New Republic: the issue was abnormally ad-packed...
Lawyer Joseph A. Padway, barrel-shaped and bull-voiced, had taken up the morning with his arguments for the defense. The presence of Padway, A.F.L.'s brightest legal light, gave John much inward satisfaction. The A.F.L. hierarchy might hate and fear Lewis for the way he had assaulted them in the past, but they had to come to his support on an issue like this. Padway was the big opening gun in the battery of defense...
Venezuela was a fair example. There Acción Democrática, now in power, had outorganized the Communists politically and in the trade unions. Soviet representatives, keenly interested in Venezuela's million-barrel daily oil production, had used their influence over the Embassy luncheon table to induce the leaders of the three feeble Communist groups to unite. But even when merged, these drew only 51,000 votes in last month's election...