Word: bounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force and navy. In numbers, the force seems imposing, but to TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder last week General Sun frankly conceded that he has a tough job of reorganization ahead of him. Only about half of Sun's troops will take his orders; the others feel themselves bound to generals who reject Sun's authority. Actually, Sun would prefer a smaller, more compact army than he now commands. Unreliable generals have been sacked right & left without regard to traditional face-saving niceties. Sun is now busy re-establishing their units under generals of his own choosing...
Burden. In Knoxville, Tenn., the judge bound Neal Edwards to the grand jury for stealing a 100-lb. sack of flour, despite Edwards' contention that "somebody must have put it on my back...
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky left New York aboard a U.S. ship, bound for his homeland after almost three months in New York as chief of the Soviet delegation to the U.N. His parting tip to three porters who carried his mountain of luggage aboard: $40. His parting words on shipboard: "I want to wish all the 'American people a Happy New Year...
Soon, with the help of a friend named Russell Sharp, W.P. had devised a book that seemed to be the answer. Inexpensively bound in brown paper, it was a workbook filled with simple sentences from Dickens and Longfellow as well as phrases about Sharp's pet dog Fogy. "I didn't know anything about copyright in those days," says W.P., "so I just printed in each of the books 'copyright applied for.' " Then, he began selling...
...stations to take positive action about the whodunits." In St. Louis, General Manager George M. Burbach of KSD-TV said that he had been deluging NBC for months with "our objections to gory programs of all kinds. We're convinced that horror on television is a mistake and bound to bring unfavorable mass reaction sooner or later." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, owner of KSD-TV, editorialized: "Dramatic murder ... is older than Sophocles. But ... the most popular dramas have never displayed, as their principal reason for being, bashed heads and riddled bodies. As employed by television, these...