Word: funke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, critical years of interminable negotiating, Acheson and the foreign ministers had reached agreement at Brussels on military unity, and picked a supreme commander to lead a skeleton army. Western Europeans were war-weary, right next door to the enemy, and had good reason to be in a funk. The question was whether a different Secretary of State might have done more to rally them...
...fourth leader rejects the insinuation, by a Czech correspondent, that Britain is in a complete funk because its citizens usually answer the question, . "How are you?" with, "It could be worse." The Times explains that the phrase is not a sign of discouragement at all. Fully expanded, it means: " 'Here am I, a man like other men, with rather more health and rather less money than most-or the other way round-neither expecting nor deserving the smile of fortune. Income tax is nine shillings in the pound; there is a depression approaching from the Azores; and I have...
SEEDS OF TREASON (270 pp.)-Ralph de Toledano & Victor Lasky-Funk & Wagnalls...
...birds keep turning up here at the TIME & LIFE Building in the wake of our book, Strictly for the Birds, which I told you about recently. The business of miscalling our feathered friends has now been advanced, or retarded, by such additions to the aviary as the Blue Funk, the Lesser Evil, the Involuntary Flinch and, heaven protect us, the Working Gull. There have been many requests for additional copies of the bird book, and we are fulfilling them as long as the supply lasts...
Fred Gwynne, president of the "Lampoon," has jumped leagues to write the best story of the lot. Called "Ronny," it describes with understanding the gap between the emotions of a small boy and his mother. Far different and nearly as good is Sherman Funk's "The Way to Travel." Funk rehashes the told, bruising discomfort of two squads in an Army six-by-six truck. His description of discomfort is no more vivid than that in a dozen war novels, but it is remarkable to find the "Advocate" writing on the level of the good war novel, and Funk...