Word: directioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trim & Adaptable. The State Department eyed a somewhat brighter spot in the Far East-the trim, adaptable, hardworking nation of Japan. Japan was under the direct and all-but-absolute control of the U.S. Strategically, it flanked the Asiatic mainland as England flanked Europe. What was more, Japan had a powerful spokesman, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur...
...government machinery will roughly parallel that of the U.S., with a Senate and Chamber of Deputies, a Supreme Court with the power to pass on the constitutionality of laws. The President will be elected for a four-year term by direct universal suffrage, but cannot succeed himself for two following terms. Most controversial measure: the power given the President, subject to the approval of Congress, to order the "preventive detention of persons who there is reason to believe are implicated" in plans to overthrow the Government...
...wanting to know more about the ultrasonic siren and its inventor. The Public Library called to say that they were getting inquiries for Audio Engineering but couldn't locate it on any of their lists. The president of Ultrasonic Corp. turned up in person to get more information direct from us. He had read the story on the night train from Boston and had stopped by our office on arrival...
...soon as Marshall had finished, the committeemen began. If State wanted to meet Communist propaganda, why didn't it kick out the Communists on its own payroll? One of the members read off a list of Department employees who were under direct FBI suspicion, but who had not yet been fired. They brought up the name of a secretary with access to confidential memoranda, who had been hobnobbing with local Reds and the Soviet Embassy staff for months. State's only action, they said, had been to call in the secretary, ask her if she was a Communist...
...Conn. In You Can't Go Home Again, the late Thomas Wolfe lovingly caricatured Good Friend Perkins as "Foxhall Edwards"; drew a Miltonic epitaph: "Oh guileful Fox, how innocent in guilefulness and in innocence how full of guile! How straight in cunning, and how cunning-straight, in all directions how strange-devious, in all strange-deviousness how direct! Too straight for crookedness, and for envy too serene, too fair for blind intolerance, too just and seeing and too strong for hate, too honest for base dealing, too high for low suspiciousness, too innocent for all the scheming tricks...