Word: fractionation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gustave describes how Kurt, the SS leader, "raised his gun and sighted it carefully at me. I tried not to look, but soon I had to raise my eyes. The tip of the foresight was a fraction below the level of his puckered eye, part of which showed in the aperture of the backsight. He was aiming at my throat. I had had them do that to me before in the camps. They aimed at you and stroked the trigger. For them it was like love making. They knew that you and they had the same thing in mind...
...certainly no sense in groping forward. The fact is that liberals have ever been called naive, and the fight has not yet been lost. It is just possible, then, that naivete is not as prevalent as Professor Elliott thinks and that the American delegates, having spent a good fraction of their time thinking about and preparing for such contingencies, may be able to see the contemporary currents a good deal more clearly than a remote observer, whose information comes to him second-hand and through prejudiced channels...
...premature move back to academic "normalcy," the History Department recently announced the resumption of the divisional examination requirement for all but a fraction of the veterans in the department. Under the departmental ukase, all men who have returned to College after a two-year leave in Service, and who plan to remain for just one year, are forced to take this exam covering the particular branch of history in which they have specialized. Men who began their training in History 5 or 63 back in 1941 or '42 are forced to resurrect their notes and memories and, without benefit...
...Mediterranean, it used the Navy (TIME, Sept. 30). The volatile, high-octane boys in the Air Forces were sure that a single B-29 sitting on a runway in Europe, with a "mushroom bomb" in its belly, would be a more convincing show of force, at a fraction of the Navy's cost. They wanted to blast the Administration's foreign-policy makers off the Navy's teak decks and make them airborne...
...those who see in the Authority the danger of controlled writing, they can rest their alarmist bones in peace. The Authority is not built along political lines, reactionary or otherwise. And should the writers of America discover the Authority making one fraction of a move toward censorship, there would be heard in the land a ery of eloquence that would put Hearst and McCormack to shame...