Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, labor's dictators of fashions in wage increases had pretty well established the motif for 1947's high style. The 1947 model for most basic industries will make 1946's flouncy 18½? an hour look skimpy. The new creation is a dramatic, billowing $2 a day (25? an hour...
...Veto. A group of small nations, led by Cuba and Australia, demanded that the Assembly take a stand for modification of the Big Five veto in the Security Council. Since Russia has used the veto nine times since U.N.'s creation (no other nation has invoked it), the Russian delegation naturally was dead set against debating the proposal. The Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky charged that the small nations were scattering "apples of discord...
Looking Down. "By academism we mean: to evaluate things by ingrained custom. . . . But life is different, unbridled, without respect. . . . The U.N., spontaneous creation in the fading hour of a society outmoded by the elan of a new life, must take heed! Bad shepherds are not lacking...
...each voter left the polls he dipped the little finger of his right hand into a green fluid. That was to keep him from voting twice. The creation of one Dr. Roberto Finol of Maracaibo, the green dye was supposed to be proof against soap, acid or anything for at least a couple of days. Venezuelans read the inscription on the bottle-". . . to guarantee universal suffrage"-and submitted willingly...
...course on New England, commencing, in the flame of the autumn leaves, with an excursion to Walden where "the morning wind forever blows; the poem of creation is uninterrupted...