Word: clear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more progress. Responding to Paul Hoffman's plea, OEEC produced a resolution calling for the elimination of import quotas by Dec. 15 on half of Western Europe's private trade (this would leave out a large volume of trade carried on by governments). Paul Hoffman made it clear that this measure had not gone very far to satisfy him. "There is no magic in words . . . the magic lies only in action," he said. "If there is a failure to act ... we may have a new kind of dark age in the world...
...diplomat and chief Dutch troubleshooter at The Hague Round Table Conference, which had been called to settle the differences between Indonesia and The Netherlands (TIME, Sept. 5). Van Royen had just wound up a crucial committee meeting which seemed to assure the conference's success. The way was clear for the birth of a new nation...
...government corporation had plenty of excuses. First there were heavy rains, then a severe drought. The bush in the Kongwa district had "proved unduly obstinate"; it took eight hours to clear one acre instead of the estimated two. Kongwa soil hardens until it becomes "like a tennis court." Tractors had been mishandled by native labor. Even African animals turned saboteurs. Wild pigs made a goober feast of one experimental farm, and telephone lines were constantly broken by mild but shortsighted giraffes who got entangled in the wires...
Orthodox psychoanalysis and religion, says Kristol, will never agree on truth. The issue between them is simple and clear-cut. Religion asserts "that the understanding of psychoanalysis is only a dismal, sophisticated misunderstanding, that human reason is inferior to divine reason, that the very existence of psychoanalysis is a symptom of gross spiritual distress . . . Psychoanalysis, religion might say, comes not to remove insanity, but to inaugurate...
Scar repents his way straight to the electric chair. Later, he repents some more by coming from another world (not clear whether heaven or hell) with 14 subordinate mobsters to protect Lu, who is now an Army nurse on the battlefield. Somewhat taken aback by this rash of miracles, Red O'Shea admits