Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fumbling governments. Partly the hope is for justice : law that really works. Mostly the hope is for a better life. Since World War II, 26 million rural Latin Americans have left the countryside for cities that shimmer with promise of jobs. food, clothes, houses, education. They arrive to find unemployment, housing shortages. jammed schools. Each disillusionment chafes doubly as a Communist propaganda drumfire pounds on it. And the new prosperity of Europe, the new and well publicized political freedom in Africa, added to existing prosperity and freedom in the U.S.. serve to make Latin America seem relatively stalled...
Hunting last summer for a ship to sink, Movie Producer Andrew (Cry Tenor) Stone was no more successful than the average iceberg. He combed the shipyards of Europe trying to find the chief prop for a new film called The Last Voyage, gave up in discouragement and sailed for home. At sea a day or so later, he looked over the water and saw a twin-stack, 44,000-ton liner slicing her way west at 23 knots. "That's the one," cried Stone. "I want...
Supermarkets often shunt private labels to bottom shelves, place their own house brands at eye level. National brands are often stocked in insufficient quantities, and money from national-brand cooperative advertising has been known to find its way to advertise private brands in local newspapers...
...know what it is. If Santayana was suggesting a satiety of the mind, André Gide, in his 81st year, was more keenly aware of a flagging of the senses. He had discovered a word from the Greek for it, anorexia (lack of appetite), but he added: "I find it hard to console myself for not knowing Greek...
...bring any doctrine; I resist giving advice; and in a discussion I beat a hasty retreat. But I know that today many seek their way gropingly and don't know in whom to trust. To them I say: believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it; doubt everything, but don't doubt of yourself. There is more light in Christ's words than in any other human word. This is not enough, it seems, to be a Christian: in addition, one must believe. Well, I do not believe. Having said this...