Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-Communist world failed to understand the Tito crisis, it would pass up a Kremlin-sent opportunity for a victory in the Cold War-a war which, for the West, consists of one-third military preparedness, one-third economic recovery, and one-third political action that has to begin with a knowledge of what the Communist parties are all about...
Modern Talk. Now living in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Héctor Poleo hears so much talk of war that war has become an obsession. "I worry all the time. Everyone begin to talk about a new war. These people don't know the true war or else they have inhuman feelings for other people. I believe in a new system." When friends press him about it, he says doggedly: "I don't care about a name, but something have to came. My viewpoint is more than political...
...Costello if he was aware how the nation felt about having a "foreign monarch" on the Leinster House lawn. Costello made a careful reply: the statue would soon be removed; the deputies needed more room to park their cars. It was anticipated, he said, that the removal would begin this month...
...compensate for a lack of "visual cues," the kinesthetic method supplies tactile ones: her students begin by tracing a word with their fingers until it can be written without a model. They learn only the words they need for the "stories" she has them write. After these stories are written, she has them typed so that the proud author learns to recognize his words in print. Once a word is learned, the tracing model of it is stowed away in a "dictionary box" for future reference. The word must never be copied from the model; that would involve distracting...
Idlewild's official dedication will begin this month as the city's Golden Anniversary International Air Exposition, when 1,000 Air Force planes will pass in review before President Truman. During the nine-day celebration, the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard will demonstrate their latest aircraft. For the city the celebration will hold a broader significance. A field capable of moving 1,000 flights a day comes close to the commercial air supremacy predicted by Fiorello H. La Guardia when he called for the "best damn airport in the world...