Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, six more British Navy ships were under way from Singapore to Hong Kong. They would give the colony its mightiest array of sea power since war's end. The British are resigned to the fact that Hong Kong, if they hold on to it, will be a British fortress for years-they only hope that it can be a trading post at the same time. So far, the Chinese Communists have respected British power-and Hong Kong's usefulness to them as a source of supplies from the outside world. But in his mansion...
...colony's British-built schools. One day last week a group of dockyard laborers' children gave an evening entertainment to raise funds for the Communist armies. A girl teacher with pigtails and hornrimmed glasses exhorted her audience shrilly: ". . . A bright new future is ours . . . let's give cheers to Chairman Mao and the new People's Republic . . ." When the applause was over, a mixed glee club took over with propaganda-packed songs: Sending off Sweethearts to the Front, Chiang's Reign Is All a Mess, and The Glorious New Five-Starred National Flag...
...Barren's weekly (circ. 36,672). Specializing primarily in financial services and statistics, Barren's of late years has edged cautiously into the field of economic and political analysis and commentary. Recently Dow, Jones President Bernard Kilgore and Wall Street Journal Editor W. H. Grimes decided to give Barren's readers a view of a still wider horizon. Their model: the London Economist, England's most influential periodical...
...first man to cross the color line into the major leagues, was voted by the sportwriters Most Valuable Player in the National League. As second baseman for the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, he had been the league's batting champion (.342) and leading base stealer. The award would give him extra leverage in prying more salary out of Boss Branch Rickey than the estimated $22,000 he got this year. Said Robinson: "I don't know how much there was to those rumors about Mr. Rickey wanting to sell me, but I know one thing...
...moving bright spot that "scans" back & forth, covering the whole screen with 525 lines of light which the slow-reacting human eye (if not brought too close) sees as a picture. The pictures follow one another so fast (30 a second) that they are blended by the eye to give the illusion of motion-just as the eye blends the frames on a strip of movie film. Pictures or elements of pictures in the primary colors will blend too, giving a scene in reasonably natural colors...