Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...democracy" at work in every village the Communists have taken. The Chinese say that the Reds have a "three-head policy." The first stage is the "nod head," when they are polite to the people and want to make friends. The second stage is the "shake head," when they begin to refuse the people's requests. The third stage comes when they are in full control; it is called the "chop head...
...press laugh the incident off," Winn writes, "with nervous jokes about eating crow, and jittery gestures in the direction of a pseudo good-natured sportsmanship." But the press is Big Business. How can the public interest find protection? It could be hoped that some of the publishers themselves "would begin to get concerned about the situation they find themselves in and voluntarily do something about it. . . . there is little evidence that that will be the case." Nor would Winn favor the imposition of government controls. "Were that proposed, we would have to take our stand with the publishers...
...Register staff plans to begin work on the Freshman Red Book as soon as present volumes have been distributed...
...Night and Day on the beach at Newport, and It's DeLovely on the high seas,. His songs have felt the influence of his wanderings. What Is This Thing Called Love? was suggested by a native dance in Morocco's Marrakech, and he developed the music of Begin the Beguine from a war-dance chant he heard in Kalabahi, a small island in the Netherlands Indies (he had already got the title idea from a Martinique cafe in Paris...
Next week, Dr. Lawrence Hafstad, 44, the division's first chief, will begin his enormous task of pacifying the atom. Born in Minneapolis of Norwegian parents, he worked his way through the University of Minnesota as a telephone maintenance man. In April 1939, young Dr. Hafstad got in on the ground floor of nuclear energy by publishing, with associates, the first paper on "delayed neutrons." Delayed neutrons make an atomic pile possible: they allow time for adjusting its speed of reaction...