Word: comings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reporter Wesley McCune. General Omar Bradley's famed, soldierly prose is the product of Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host of other U.S. postwar memoirs, few have come into print without a touch of ectoplasmic eloquence. Two recent exceptions to the rule: General Dwight D. Eisenhower's and General George Kenney...
...Reds keep telling the West Germans that they would be better off united with their Eastern brothers. Communist agents whisper into the eager ear of discontent: "Just wait until we come." A heavy rattling of the Russian saber last week reinforced that whisper. Moscow, it was reported, was sending Marshal Ivan S. Konev, one of Russia's top military men, to head its Eastern zone army...
...other children, the crew and three nurses, were dead. Miraculously, Isaac had suffered little more than a black eye and a sprained arm. The child smiled at the lumberjack and said in halting French: "I have come here to go to school. Take me to the school...
...much. In its insistence upon educating the "whole child" it is acting as if the home, the parents, the church, and everything outside the classroom had no existence at all. Over the years it has added course after course to cover everything short of "how to come in out of the rain"-courses in "socioeconomic problems, home care of the sick, driver education, safe living, industrial hygiene, community health," all the way down to "personal grooming [and] hospitality." The result of all this, says Smith, is that "while the scope of the school is thus being greatly enlarged, we expect...
...these and other technical reasons, scientists heard the news about Russian science with respect and foreboding. If the U.S.S.R. is producing plutonium, it has come a long way in the four years of its sped-up atomic-bomb program...