Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven when the Civil War was lost and a squadron of Union cavalry rode down a dusty road and into his home town of Lynchburg, Va. A blue-clad rider hauled him up into the saddle and asked: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" He was frail, sickly and small for his age. But he struck out wildly and screamed: "A Confederate major who shoots Yankees." Carter Glass never outgrew his frailty, his sickliness, his ferocity with fists and tongue. And he never forgot -not for a minute-he was a Virginian and a Democrat...
...jaunty Strong Man to abolish Nazi influence in Argentina, and to give real guarantees of good faith before the U.S. signs any inter-American defense treaty with him. But Messersmith sniffed success: the Argentine Government had finally got round to raising the state of siege and restoring the civil liberties that had been in suspension-with two brief exceptions-since right after Pearl Harbor...
...limelight. Newly appointed to Japan's House of Peers, he is among those whose seating General MacArthur has ordered delayed, pending determination of their status as "desirable personnel." Headquarters rumor predicted last week that he would not be purged, despite an unfavorable report by SCAP's Civil Intelligence Section...
...days when American commercial air policy was being set, President Truman had shown no particular interest in it. He had let the Civil Aeronautics Board plot the course and fly the plane. But last week, to the vast discomfiture of Pan American Airways, the President took over-plane, pilot...
...rival press lords to ponder. What would happen to the gaudy Daily News, now that its heart had stopped beating? The answer might rest with two other grandchildren of old Joseph Medill, who founded a fabulous dynasty when he bought into the Chicago Tribune six years before the Civil...