Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House physician, Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, seemed content. Recently he had been able to talk his patient into a little extra exercise-occasional car rides, more frequent dips in the White House pool. The Roosevelt weight was just what the doctor likes...
...weary search for a vast new northwestern Oklahoma oilfield in what geologists long ago named the Anadarko Basin. Though seismograph crews have swarmed over the basin for eleven years, dynamiting and painstakingly recording the sound waves that came back to their earphones, its area and oil content are still unknown. Until the Cottingham came in on the east flank of the basin, Anadarko produced little but "dry hole money"-the cash that oil companies advance to an enterprising wildcatter, to be repaid in oil or nothing...
...miners have not been content with their Government's philanthropy. They have blamed poor production on obsolete equipment. They struck (four months ago) in protest against a Government decision not to expand. More recently they have clamored for a $1-a-day raise to bring their wages up to the $4.90 paid in privately operated mines...
...President Eamon de Valera returned a flat "No" (see p. 36). Would the U.S. now get tough as it had with neutral Spain, and join Britain in economic sanctions? Or would the President and the State Department, unable to prove a single case of Axis espionage in Eire, be content with having put themselves on record? One clue: around the State Department, keenly conscious of the big U.S. Irish vote, the worried word about Eire last week was: "How do you think the U.S. will react...
...Washington reporter, Belgian and Russian correspondent, European graduate student, U.S. college professor (Antioch, 1922-23), associate editor of the Baltimore Sun (1923-24). He discovered his talent for the affable packaging of intellectual pabulum with his Story of Mankind (1921). With a roughage of Dutch wit, a vitamin-content of "human-interest background," and doodled-over with his own pen-&-ink sketches, his The Story of the Bible, The Arts, Van Loon's Lives sold 6,000,000 in his lifetime...