Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judicious; practiced in moderation, it allays the passions, promotes digestion, placates animosities, and makes for happiness at the domestic hearth . . . No sane man would seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist had at him with a bomb, or his wife eloped with the letter-carrier. But on missing a train, or slipping on an orange peel, or losing a collar button, or in the presence of a crying baby, an automatic piano, a political heresy, or an incompetent barber-then the ancient craft hath its high uses...
...minor war around Kashmir didn't bother our seeing the Taj Mahal (a not the least overrated spectacle) at all. We had been warned that Cairo was no place for tourists this year, but, aside from one explosion near our quarters when some Arabs planted a bomb in a Jewish-owned department store, we made it safely out to the pyramids and back. Before we got to Rome, Communist Leader Togliatti had already been shot...
...Nobody Is Perfect." In the Human Rights Commission last week, the Soviets' Alexei Pavlov launched one of his routine tirades against the U.S., which usually range far afield to cover the atom bomb, lynching, and warmongering. Up rose Eleanor Roosevelt to make a soft but effective answer: "I do not want to make more bad feelings here ... I want to try to have us, when we have to say that we do not agree, say it on the idea, and as courteously as we can. [We should] be perfectly honest and frank about our objectives, not attack ourselves more...
...fighting that followed was in deadly earnest. The same evening, as prearranged, Israeli bombers took off on what the government called an "action to open and keep open the convoy routes to and in the Negeb." Some of the heaviest bomb-loads yet dropped in the Holy
Psychiatry, says Dr. Will sensibly, cannot save the world all by itself. He has no patent psychiatric pills for ending war, or meeting the threat of the atomic bomb-or even for getting children to stop biting their nails. But the world, he thinks, would be a better place to live in if people were healthier in their minds. Spreading the word.about psychiatry-to folks who need it, and to doctors who don't know much about it-is a job that Dr. Will finds well worth doing...