Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and big, bluff Jim Farley made one of the most effective U.S. political teams of all time. Farley did the spadework; F.D.R. sowed the political and sociological gardens. Then the team fell apart. Last week, 26 months after Roosevelt's death, Big Jim began to explain "Why I Broke with Roosevelt," in Collier's magazine...
...their pre-armistice dwellers. Farmland is being requisitioned even more ruthlessly. People with a job and a house in town, plus a farm, must give up one or the other. Big farms have been slashed into small units-so small that many of them are economically impractical. That helps explain why Finland's agricultural output last year was 60% of prewar, while industrial output recovered...
...Button, a government forecaster in Chicago, said that weather men could not explain why this year's cold, wet spring" had continued so long. No one has yet suggested that the rising clouds of three atomic bombs could have dispersed the proper performance...
...Monday, TIME'S press day. In the next issue, Jonathan Norton Leonard was advised by his managing editor, a special Atomic Age section (TIME, Aug. 20, 1945) would try to tell the significance of the atomic bomb and Science's share of it would be to explain "how it works." Leonard got hold of the now famous Smyth report, sat up until 4 a.m. digesting it and wrote his story, which, checked by an atomic physicist, turned out to be correct in every detail. The Smyth report later proved to be the real news of atomic fission...
...inhabitants) struggle or will struggle through life with "some unnecessary handicap of nervousness." They may be over-conscientious, oversensitive, or plagued by fears, prejudices, feelings of inferiority. Many individuals and families in this group are poor insurance risks because they seem to have an affinity for accidents (which psychiatrists explain as evidence of an unconscious urge to suicide). A classic case: a guilt-ridden patient who had had 24 major disasters, wrecked eleven automobiles. But this group also includes most leaders and "responsibility takers...