Word: container
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wading In. But last week ambitious Walter Reuther, no easy man to contain, needed an endorsement neither from Murray nor any other outsider. In the 19 months between conventions, he had worked tirelessly to sap the strength of his left-wing opposition. At first, the results were poor. But as anti-Communist feeling rose generally throughout the U.S., it rose among U.A.W. members, too, and Reuther made the most...
Dalton's successor, Sir Stafford ("The Brain") Cripps, now at the pinnacle of his power, has more rigorous ideas than Dalton on the fiscal policy of a Socialist Government (TIME, Nov. 10). The first Cripps budget, to be presented in April, may contain more drastic provisions...
...addition, the group asked Congress to "contain inflationary forces" by restricting consumer credit, regulating exports, and promoting confidence in the American dollar...
Beware of Pity (J. Arthur Rank) is a cinemadaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel, one of those puddle-depth stories that, draining themselves with a sort of literary eye dropper, pretend to contain oceans of ideas. The tedious technique might seem justified if it conveyed vivid people, or even lively situations. Beware of Pity conveys only one droplet of an idea (there are two kinds of pity: good & bad) diluted in gallons of plot...
...attacked world government as a panacea which could only take people's minds off the "serious" problems confronting the world today. They also pointed out the "danger" that a strong federal world government might well become an instrument of international oppression, as there would be no force which could contain it within "reasonable" bounds...