Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those Other Forces. Then Blough took the offensive. The causes of inflation, he declared, "are clearly associated with the fiscal, monetary, labor and other policies of Government"-a sharp dig at the Administration's spending policies and its habit of intervening in labor disputes all the way from the high seas to the Metropolitan Opera. The President's economic advisers, Blough charged, "seem to be assuming the role of informal price setters for steel-psychological or otherwise. But if for steel, what then for automobiles or rubber or machinery or electrical products or food or paper or chemicals...
...reader wrote last week, "is a very positive magazine." Being positive is a responsibility that TIME assumes as part of its aim to tell the reader what is so and to alert him to what is not so. Toward this end, TIME'S researchers, correspondents and editors dig as deep and roam as wide as they can to establish the facts-large and small-for every story. But as each issue is going to press, the editors always find that in the interest of accuracy and completeness and curiosity they want more details-very often small but nonetheless important...
...Division. On the night of Aug. 5, 1944, McRacken and eleven other G.I.s crouched behind a tank as the 90th approached Mayenne on its drive toward Paris. Retreating German troops had blown up two of three bridges across the Mayenne River to stop the Americans; the Germans planned to dig in for an all-out fight for the town. Only the 150-ft.-long Savings Bank Bridge remained, and a 250-lb. bomb and 15 cases of dynamite had been wired to blow its stone structure to bits...
...more subtle psychological methods. Loudspeakers din the dictator's speeches over and over; uncooperative prisoners are plunged into ice water, shifted back and forth from brightly lit cells to black solitary confinement, questioned for endless hours. The VIPs (very important prisoners) are sometimes forced, Chinese-style, to dig their own graves before "firing squads'' of jeering. Tommy-gun-toting militiamen; at the last instant, "reprieve'' comes and the shattered prisoner is herded indoors for more questions...
...moral was obvious, but Good Housekeeping could not resist a dig at McCall's campaign to boost its circulation to 8,000,000 by December and the Journal's race to keep up: "When a toad puffs to impress, she pays the penalty. When a magazine puffs to impress, it's the advertiser who pays." That moral was guaranteed by Good Housekeeping to make the battle of the slick-paper ladies even more frantic...