Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shanghai was the focus of a loosely knit and potentially dangerous Japanese fifth column. U.S. newsmen reported that it was composed of Black Dragon terrorists and diehard operatives of Japanese intelligence services. The fifth-column objectives were said to be: 1) promoting anti-democratic propaganda; 2) promoting Chinese civil strife...
Even if you know nothing about camera technique, you may soon be taking clear, indoor snapshots of Junior. The Army Signal Corps has developed a parent-proof camera with built-in sunlight. All you have to do-indoors or outdoors, day or night-is focus on the subject and pull the trigger. The camera does the rest...
...ignorance, frivolity and rivalry the world played with the awful atom. Last week the U.S. Congress became the focus of the world's hopes and fears. The U.S. had the bomb; had it the genius to lay down an initial policy which would grow into man's domination of atomic power...
This is a season in which great things are expected on Broadway. Robert Sherwood's "Out of Hell" opens in Providence in a few days, and Elmer Rice, Maxwell Anderson, and other honored playwrights promise big things. Tennessee Williams, newly risen through "The Glass Menagerie," is the focus of the big town's attention this week--but "You Touched Me" is no "Glass Menagerie," despite its merits...
...Focus. The Council of Foreign Ministers' opening session (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) marked the return of Europe's political life. London embassies carried a heavy traffic of emissaries: the Greek Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos; French Socialism's aging Leon Blum; the Czech Premier, soft-spoken Zdenek Fierlinger; Britain's ambassadors and ministers to Near and Middle East countries...