Word: com
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of their own NATO troops to fight in Algeria, leaving only about a division behind, they were also aware that they could claim few top NATO posts for themselves. Accordingly, when two of their generals vacated NATO commands last year, the French suggested that a German be named com mander of NATO's Central European land forces-with the understanding that their own General Jean-Etienne Valluy take over the higher office of chief of all NATO forces in Central Europe...
...There was still danger of provoking the Russians. Radio Moscow warned Poland last week: "National Communism is nothing but a crafty form of bourgeois nationalism." The press, free-speaking to the point of recklessness, needed to be more circumspect, he suggested, and he also implied that he was getting Com munist criticism for permitting the teaching of the Roman Catholic religion in the public schools, as a concession to Wyszynski...
Last week the Supreme Court, after taking its own hard look at the law, plugged up Barrel No. 2. The court ruled that-even in cases where the members are aware that their leaders are Com munists and have perjured themselves in filing affidavits-the NLRB cannot deny its services to the union membership. Principal reason, as outlined in a unanimous decision delivered by Associate Justice William O. Douglas: Congress intended to restrict the NLRB's role to getting the affidavits filed, left it to the Justice Department to examine their validity and exact penalties where required-but only...
Gossipist Walter Winchell, explaining away the deficiencies of his soon-unspon-sored TV variety show (TIME, Dec. 3) in terms of his virtues as a "news com mentator," announced his readiness to crush every last one of his many enemies: "All those columnists rapping me," he wrote in TV Guide, "where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket ... I want to get back at a lot of people. If I drop dead before I get to the Zs in the alphabet, you'll know how I hated...
...most people because he has a good time with almost everyone, gently ribbing arrogant, hurried visitors, facetiously stalling intent and flashy wholesalers' "drummers." His laugh sounds more like a caw of a crow than anything else, and there's usually something--whether it's the Red Sox, the "Com'unists," or lazy college students--to caw about around the store...