Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force to blast Red concentrations then attacking his heroic 27th Regiment (TIME, Oct. 16). Two weeks ago I told you about the many letters we get from TIME-reading G.I.s and officers in combat. But John Warren Smith insists that there is "no need to go to distant lands to find people reading TIME under hardships." A former Columbia University graduate student, 22-year-old Private Smith sent me the following story to prove his point...
Plots to William Shakespeare were as pots to a busy wizard-any old tub, begged, borrowed or stolen, would do to mix the magic in. In The Tempest, for instance, the plot is the tired old story about a nobleman, bilked of his estates, who takes refuge on a distant island, and mild revenge on his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Yet in this common vessel, Shakespeare stirred a wizard's brew of steaming language and the rich juice of 30 years' experience; the mixture mulled, at the last stir of the action, into a fine philosophical...
...Japanese rearmament by continuing or increasing this after the signing of a treaty. The U.S. subsidy could be reduced by the re-creation of a large Japanese merchant marine. A bigger merchant-marine building program, long restricted by occupation policy, would put the Japanese in a position to import distant raw materials at prices they...
Around Chicago's St. Bernard's Hospital, Dr. Joseph Kamarauskas was a man of mystery. He was painfully conscientious, unfailingly polite, but always a little moody and distant with his colleagues. He never talked much about the past, except to say that he and his wife had come to the U.S. from Lithuania two years ago as displaced persons...
...Zorn dropped a sackful of her tears in the Duke's lap, and sailed off with the princess for "the distant shining shores of Ever After." The Duke "showed his lower teeth" and muttered disconsolately: "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." A little while later there was a smell of old unopened rooms; then there was a sound of rabbits screaming; then there was a gleep; and then there wasn't any Duke in Coffin Castle...