Word: boomerangers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting has shown none of the advances in strategy or collaboration which might have made last night's news the "greatest story of the year." Its publicity can only be a boomerang in the face of Washington and the press. To over-emphasize the good news is as poor policy as to conceal the bad; to herald in superlatives the intangible accomplishments of the current meeting can only minimize when it comes the effect of a realized collaboration among the United Nations...
...Boomerang. Because Britain long encouraged the teaching of English in Indian schools and colleges, Indians learned to like their news in English, which explains why so many Indian papers are printed in English. By watching the British press, Indians long ago learned that an unfettered press is a steppingstone to freedom. Because they had good British newsmen as models (Rudyard Kipling joined the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette in 1882), Indians grew up to be Grade A journalists, dialectically skillful, intensely nationalistic...
...learned that under the tension of an air raid some people become indecently ravenous, others, like herself, irrationally sleepy. She saw a woman's panic soothed by the mere act of counting her pay. She learned how, five minutes after planes have vanished and firing has ceased, the boomerang threat of anti-aircraft shrapnel comes hissing down like rain out of new sunlight.* She saw, for the first time, the "refugee look"-faces looking so stunned that they suggested that the brain's gyroscope had been removed...
Chairman Ditter had cause for worry. His fine platform which boosted the improving chances of his party could boomerang if the party failed to live...
Resemblance to U.S. art ended in one group which turned out to be the hit of the show; eleven primitive charcoal and clay drawings on eucalyptus bark, done, not by Australia's high-brow artists, but by the paint-and-feather-clad, boomerang-throwing natives of the Australian bush. Showing animals, hunting scenes and spirits, these queer, childlike pictures were as unrealistic and imaginative as the screwball drawings of famed German Expressionist Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21). Some showed kangaroos and kookaburra birds drawn with their internal organs visible X-ray-wise through the skin. One, depicting a spirit...