Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report on allergic children [TIME, April 18] provokes serious reflection. After over 30 years of active medical practice I can say with utmost conviction that the specimen cases cited in the report which you quote are evidently children who have been poorly brought up, either by ignorant and indifferent parents or, more likely, by mothers who regard themselves as "progressive"-young ladies who swear by Freud and know all there is to know about inhibitions, complexes and the subconscious ego. Pity their poor children...
...reaching political and social battle was being fought. After eleven years of the Wagner Act, two years of the Taft-Hartley Act, Congress was trying to decide whether the U.S. should try some compromise between the two-and if there were compromises, how far they should go either way. On no other piece of legislation was Harry Truman staking so much of his political prestige. Beaten in the Senate on his civil rights program, he wanted desperately to win his labor bill...
...Republicans were not appeased. Cried New Hampshire's angry Styles Bridges: "Everyone on the Republican side this morning was either sick to his stomach or mad as hell. It is impossible for me to understand how any Republican Senator would resign his position of responsibility and trust when it meant turning the post over to a Democrat.* It doesn't smell good to me." But to the Democrats, and especially to Chester Bowles, it smelled fine...
...public hearings were held on the bill. Under the new wording, "teaching the doctrines of atheistic communism" is the offense for which teachers would receive a fine, a year in jail, and banishment from the profession. This phrase replaces "advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence." Either version, however, could conceivably be applied to large bodies of people who did not hold the same views as the Commissioner of Education or the majority of the legislature...
...Lottery" is an allegory, and a fine one: it cuts too close to the heart of people and their customs to be anything much else. You can also take it as a straight dose of hair-trigger shock, if you'd rather. The story does quite as well either way and makes Miss Jackson's book worth reading...