Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone was watching in next week's Minnesota primary was sitting on the sidelines. Harold Stassen had risked a small loss against a major gain in Nebraska-and missed (TIME, June 24). Now, in his home state, he was staking his political future and his chances for the GOPresidential nomination in 1948 on the belief that his handpicked Governor, Ed Thye, could beat four-term isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination...
...topic: "Politics and the Sleeping Beauty." Women, said she, "regulate their lives according to the male's ideas of the ideal of women's status ... according to a clock which does not move forward but eternally marks the hour-sex o'clock. . . ." She advised them to "gain dignity" by taking part in politics, running for Congress...
Their hopes were high: Protestant church attendance has already doubled since V-J day. Their plans were ambitious: a three-year evangelical program, in which 1,000-odd ministers and lay preachers will be expected to gain 3,000,000 converts.*To rebuild the 500 Protestant churches destroyed by American bombs, Japan's interdenominational Church of Christ has budgeted $3,500,000-90% of it to come from U.S. contributions...
...would not only simplify that body's inspection job, but would give a clear warning if any nation encroached on ADA's field. ADA's supply of raw material and fissionable output suitable for bombs would be strategically distributed, so that no one nation could gain an advantage by seizing ADA's supplies and installations within its own borders. The Acheson planners concluded that it would be almost impossible for any nation to hide a complete bomb-making process from ore mine to finished weapon, or even to "re-nature" enough denatured material, in secret...
...Russians have tried hard to fight their own and Communism's unpopularity: to gain music-loving Vienna's favor, they ordered opera performances to be resumed last May. It was symbolic of Austrian-Russian relations that the Viennese claimed a singer in The Marriage of Figaro had been raped three times by Russian soldiers the day before the opening. To Vienna the chief villain is General Alexei Zheltov, Konev's second in command, who is believed by most observers to be more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past...