Word: dependables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explained, means "the relatives" [TIME, Oct. 31]. Nietos means exactly what Doheny apparently intended for it to mean: "grandchildren." The Spanish word for "relatives" is parientes-which looks like "parents," but the Spanish word for parents is padres. In Spanish, as in many other things, you can't depend on appearances . . . Sometimes the results are appalling. Think of the American girl who wanted to say in Spanish that she was embarrassed, for example, and used the word embarazada, which means "pregnant." Your boner at least "hit the hammer with the nail...
Coalition Dilemma. Said Premier Bidault last week: "We must govern in the center with the aid of the right to reach the goals of the left." This Gallic triple-talk indicated the weakness of the coalition that Bidault must depend upon to govern. As long as the present Chamber of Deputies exists, only patchwork coalitions of devious and delicate compromise will be possible. An increasing number of deputies want to dissolve the Chamber and hold new elections. Yet that would do little good unless there were a change in France's basic electoral law. The present law, providing...
Covering his 25th Kentucky Derby last spring, Hearstling Sportwriter Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum gratified his readers by picking the race one-two-three-four. Hereafter they will have to depend on someone else for their forecasts. Easygoing, fireplug-shaped Columnist Corum was named last week to succeed the late Colonel Matt Winn (TIME, Oct. 17) as president of the American Turf Association and Churchill Downs, i.e.) impresario of the Derby...
Dean Bender declined last night to state exactly what would happen to the students. Reports will be made to the Dean's Committee and its findings passed up to the administrative board, he said. "Decisions will depend entirely upon the seriousness of the individual cases...
Today, the infant art of industrial design is fast becoming as potent a sales force as advertising. Many big companies, like General Motors, General Electric and Westinghouse, have long since built up design departments of their own, but smaller companies, who cannot afford to do so, must depend exclusively on freelance specialists like Loewy...