Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failure was not so much in policy as in performance. Except for a few notable exceptions, U.S. leadership in world affairs had been unimaginative and uncertain. Time & again the U.S. had failed to grasp its opportunities. When Britain's Ernest Bevin suggested a union of Britain and Western Europe, the U.S. had cheered loudly, then sidestepped. The union idea died on the vine. In the U.N., around the anterooms and lounges, the most frequently heard complaint from delegates who looked to the U.S. for leadership was: "We would like to follow you but we don't know where...
Arrived: junketing Columnist Earl Wilson; at the Ernest Hemingway farm outside Havana. Among the Wilson news flashes to the home folks: that the Hemingways now have 22 cats in their house, all in one room, and "Sure," says Hemingway, "we're going to call the room 'the cat house...
...Harvard's Emeritus Professor William Ernest Hocking, in Freedom of the Press...
...Generally speaking, a newspaper or radio reporter (leaving aside columnists and commentators) is concerned with reporting the single event. When Ernest Bevin proposed a Western European Union, the first and main job of the daily correspondents was to report what he said as quickly and accurately as possible. We had three days. We could assume that TIME'S editors knew what Bevin had said; our main job was to tell them what we and others thought it meant, what he did not say, etc. We had to supply clear, unbroken quotes of his key remarks. The whole...
...Japan's setting sun (Aug. 20, 1945). TIME covers are a special responsibility of Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker. He presides at weekly cover conferences at which editors pick cover subjects, sometimes weeks, sometimes months in advance. Then he and one of the three cover artists-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin-decide on the symbolism to accompany the portrait (e.g., for Petrillo, a foot stepping on a pile of phonograph records). Most TIME cover stories are written and edited by the regular staffs of the section in which they appear. Certain cover stories, that present special...