Word: farawayness
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...sunny morning in Ankara last week German Ambassador Franz von Papen's son, Franz Jr., recently wounded on the Russian front, was riding horseback with his blonde sister Stefanie and friends. They heard a faraway explosion. "It must be artillery practice," said Franz Jr. But it was not. It was Franz von Papen Sr. being bombed...
...fighter's forthright style, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week told Britain to quit stalling on the subject of India's political freedom. The Gissimo was still visiting in India (TIME, Feb. 23), where he had just talked with Mohandas Gandhi, but his words sounded to faraway London like a thunderclap...
...United States interested in an obscure, faraway island in the Pacific called New Caledonia? Why must we be concerned about a port in West Africa called Dakar? How do different types of soil and varying weather conditions affect the defense and power of any country? . . . Geography as we must study it . . . is a study of differences in environment and their effect on men's lives...
...citizens, the local boards looked like the best way to handle a bad job. The citizen will present his problem to fellow townsmen who know him and his needs, the other fellow's too. It might have been worse. If the job were handled by. a centralized faraway bureau in Washington, with decisions wrapped in red tape, it certainly would...
...week dark with threats of labor trouble, an angry, faraway hoot from the railway unions announced that they would tie up the nation's rail systems with a strike...