Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Con. This argument would be hard to answer in purely military terms if the U.S., by striking first, could (as General Anderson seemed to suggest) really destroy Russia's atomic capabilities. But by "atomic nests" Anderson obviously meant Russian A-bomb factories. He could hardly hope to destroy the stockpile of Russian bombs already made and hidden. Nobody knows how large this stockpile is; probably it is more than 10 and less than 60-enough to give the Kremlin a means of dreadful retaliation...
Months later, when Shephard was reduced to selling rugs made by the blind because nobody else would trust his con's record, he got a wire from the Burns people. A check-passer of his general description, Edward Sullivan, the "phantom forger," had been picked up, they said. Shephard made his way to Wisconsin, where Sullivan had been sentenced, came face to face with a man of his same general build and coloring, his same long face and heavy jaw-but by'no means a twin in looks. The real "phantom" looked at photostats of the checks which...
...little mystery to an already confused situation. "There are some things I know about [Communists in the State Department] that have never fully come out," he said in a radio broadcast. "Some of this might be considered as 'pro' and some of it as 'con.' " In the meantime, he added, "it might be well for everyone to be a little careful, including the committee and myself, on reaching any ultimate conclusion...
...flying-saucers-are-real thesis a big boost. It was put out over the air last week by ABC's Henry J. Taylor and ("for what it's worth") by Mutual's Fulton Lewis Jr.; it was the subject of a documentary, neither pro nor con, by CBS's Edward R. Murrow. Columnist Robert Ruark declared that "I believe . . ." Henry Holt announced a "serious" book on flying saucers by Variety's Columnist Frank Scully. The Herald Trib, pooh-poohing the U.S. News article, concluded: "And yet-And yet there is something puzzling about the business...
...spend hours hunting down details for his book, revising parts -; of it over & over again, planning its total structure with the care of a general plan ning a battle. Proust said, "Life may bring solation." A man who disappointments, but knew in this work and is con could act upon it may not have needed sickness to increase his power of analysis ; he could be a great writer, not because he remained a child, but because at least part of him had grown into...