Word: deepful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facts & Good Sense. At 46, Gallup is still the rumpled, well-fed Iowa boy who first came east to make his fortune. Tweedy, balding, good-humored, unhurried, he talks earnestly in a deep, Midwestern voice, addresses everyone indiscriminately as "my friend." A hard worker, he hates detail, refuses to read memos and rarely answers letters. He is a tablecloth sketcher. He is so absent minded that before he leaves for an appointment his secretary gives him a neat card telling him where & when to go and how to get there...
...political battlefield of Europe it would be the climactic tactic of the war of nerves-the cunning offer of a salve for the nerves the Communists themselves have shredded. There would be a deep, unreasoning sigh of relief from millions of Europeans. It would rise spontaneously and without reflection and it would be heard happily in the halls of the Kremlin. With rehearsed righteousness, a picture would be drawn of the West appearing before a Communist bar of justice, and if the accused did not agree to a 'reasonable' solution, then the jury would be asked to pronounce...
...capitals say that Moscow is just up to its old tricks. The sophisticates will have to expose the tricks. If that is done with clarity and integrity, the West need have no fear. Precisely because the miner's and the peasant's hope for peace is so deep, he does not want it mocked by another Munich...
...with a deep moral sense, he is outraged by man's inhumanity to man. The worst tantrum he ever threw was on the day of the Austrian Anschluss. He tried to rehearse, but left the podium after the first minute. He didn't stop raging until he had almost kicked a massive table to pieces, pulled all his scores from their shelves, nearly wrecked his dressing room. Then he sat down and cried...
After six weeks of reading about every deep breath and every bad pitch their baseball heroes had taken, the fans settled down to watch the real thing. This week the season was on. Even the Red Sox's taciturn Manager Joe McCarthy (TIME, April 5) broke silence: "The Yankees? Oh, yes, the Yankees. Well, I'll tell you. I believe this Cleveland club will be up there. They've got Feller, y'know." Another team to watch was the pitcher-rich Detroit Tigers...