Word: contagions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brand of ostrich-like islationism. In light of the lessons of the 30's, this isolation is more than a short-sighted national policy. It is an international tragedy. In spite of its tender age and influence, "American Action" must be brought out into the light before its contagion has had a chance to flourish treacherously in the darkness...
...President Phil Murray sang out lustily because any controls had been dropped. Industry's top stentor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President William K. Jackson, yelled because any had been kept. Lesser fry-packers, cattle and grocery men, the pro-and anti-control press, etc.-broke out in a contagion of argument. Last of all, the consumer took up the battle with violent yes and no messages to the Board...
Oxford Was Right. Amiable Winkie Barr was parting amicably from 250-year-old St. John's. An ex-Rhodes Scholar, he thinks Oxford University has the right idea in insisting on small colleges. Says he: "Learning is a kind of contagion. The group must be compact enough for the contagion to occur. I don't want this one [St. John's] to get any bigger. We've always assumed we would start another college when it got too big." St. John's, which graduated only seven students during one wartime year, expects to enroll...
Peace was the sickly hatred Churchill described, and peace was other things: the Colonel Blimpish British mine owner who looked forward to the return of unemployment as a cure for the contagion of absenteeism (sometimes 40 percent) which broke out whenever big sports events nearby attracted his work-weary miners; the farmer (of military age) hopefully sowing his field on which a tank rusted, near Saint-Lô, Normandy (see cut); the profound, silent distrust of eleven-year-old Filomena Carciopoli, of Puzzuoli, Italy, who sullenly concealed her starving seven-month-old sister under a bed so they could...
...some other countries (e.g., France, Italy) Russia is for the moment content to infect a minority big and influential enough to prevent policies she considers highly undesirable, though not big enough to get control. Still a third group of countries (e.g., India, Spain) is exposed to Communist contagion, largely because their present regimes have not solved pressing political and social problems...