Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black coffee-and a social institution that ranks with the Englishman's tea, the Argentine's mate and the Norteamericano's cocktails. Over their four or five daily tintos in drab little cafes (many cater exclusively to lawyers, bullfight fans, et al.), Colombians make & break governments, trade plantations and gold mines, brood about mistresses and write poems...
...leftwing. Two things Publisher Hoiles is in favor of: child labor for the average, child ("Give him a pick & shovel and let him get started") and the black market. One touch of liberalism in the Hoiles record: during the war, he campaigned to give U.S. Japanese a fair break...
...Christian influence is considerable but as yet wholly inadequate . . . The churches must have better organization . . . We are not here merely for a single inspiring experience. Rather, we are here to create a world organization that will go on working daily to mobilize Christian power to break down the walls of division. Thus we shall serve Him who was lifted up that He might draw all men unto...
Editor Brucker's remedy for the U.S. editorial page would probably be too drastic for many publishers: newspapers must break "the habit . . . of attaching themselves to one of the major political parties. This is a hangover from the days when there were many papers, each speaking for a particular faction. Today, when we have few papers, it is their obligation not to be a Dr. Goebbels for any group . . . Our journalistic Jeremiahs must breathe more hellfire and damnation than ever. Only they need to get all the facts, and not just some of them, first...
Last week the papers prepared to break with their past. In mid-September, they will move to an ultramodern new building (ten blocks below the Mason-Dixon line). In the same week Editor Wallace will retire. In a sense, both departures are overdue. The new plant, budgeted to cost $3,000,000, has already eaten up $7,000,000 and will open 18 months late. And at 73, "Uncle Tom" Wallace is eight years past the paper's retirement...