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Ecstasy, Fuchsia. First to falter was West Virginia's Mary Conley, 12, who wanted to win so desperately that she muffed an easy word: desperately. (She made it "desparately.") The official pronouncer tried to soothe jangled nerves: "Relax, don't get excited. Have some fun." After that, things calmed down a bit, as contestants tripped on the tricky and the tough ones: remuneration, victuals, catarrh, integrity, censure, subtle, vaudeville, ukulele, bilious, ecstasy, granary, paraphernalia, hybrid, corollary, auricle, pugnacity, awry, diocese, quay, colossal, tutelage, idiosyncrasy, fuchsia, corroboration, rhinoceros, dysentery, desiccate, scintillate, proselyting, bellicose, knave, sarsaparilla...
...winning World War II. This is an investment in world freedom and world peace. The assistance that I am recommending for Greece and Turkey amounts to little more than one tenth of 1% of this investment. It is only common sense that we should safeguard this investment. . . . If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world-and we shall surely endanger the welfare of this nation...
...dread African Goums marched into the Place de la Concorde, ending the great Resistance Day parade, the unity that the Resistance had brought France seemed to falter. Young hotheads started yelling: "Vive De Gaulle! De Gaulle to power!" A Parisian moblet caught the fever, broke police lines. The flics-recalling fatal rightist riots on the same spot in 1934-laid about blindly with their iron-buttoned capes and arrested a handful of battered demonstrators. Other hotheads besieged Communist headquarters, burned...
...artists (TIME, Apr. 30). The book contains a few interesting pictures (some of them badly reproduced), such as Grant Wood's tufted Fall Plowing, to represent Iowa; John Steuart Curry's praying Negroes in a flood, which Curry called The Mississippi and the book labels Tennessee; John Falter's End of School (Pennsylvania); Dong Kingman's watercolor, Morning in New Orleans; Charles Burchfield's The Great Elm (New York). George Grosz's Tobacco Road looked as if he had seen the stage play, but not Georgia. A boy holding a lemon was labeled Boston...
...matter what the problems and prejudices that may lie ahead, we Americans with Japanese faces will not falter, but will glory in our work of building America as the nation of nations. And to those named above, may God bless their devotion and loyalty to their fellow men and to their country...