Word: glimmerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of an atomic age, Stevenson's New America Reports have shown Americans a glimmer of things to come. His projects for federal aid on health and education and for the aged are soundly worked out. About his draft proposals there is some doubt. Stevenson may not have worked out an ideal defense program as yet. But his recent conjectures on the subject have raised a fruitful issue; he has awakened Americans to the realization that the two-year amateur soldier may not be fitted to modern atomic warfare tactics...
...Moscow. In their incomplete and faltering English, the refugees assured U.S. immigration officials that they were returning to Communism "voluntarily." For waiting U.S. welfare workers, who had given them a start in a new country, the young Russians had no words to explain their redefection. "There was not a glimmer of recognition," one of the welfare workers said. "One of them turned to look at us, and then all the guards turned to stare at us. After that, they never looked in our direction. We. could hardly believe it when we saw the boys going up the ramp...
...papers of the fall term, we find that 16 of the lead stories concern sports, five reported speeches, and ten were of the type born in the University News Office. Seven more were routine coverage of the floods and New Haven politics. Of the nine which showed even a glimmer of reportorial originality, most were concerned with such earth-shaking events as the apprehension of a pilferer in the locker room, or the towing away of large numbers of automobiles by the police. In fact, out of 49 opportunities for constructive reporting, the News scored in only two issues, both...
...There is a glimmer of hope," he admits, "in the success of some of my friends in getting a reversal over the draft boards rulings against their conscientious objector belief." One pacifist friend, Christopher Fried 3G, was able to get special draft status upon a special appeal, after both the local and state boards had turned him down...
...knew. By his own devices and the careless words of elders, the little boy learned to suspect in time that his father had been sent to Reading Gaol, but for what crime he could only guess unassisted-and the guesses were dark beyond belief. Cyril, the elder, got a glimmer of the truth from a glance at newspaper headlines, but even he felt it necessary to keep the facts from his brother. All the boys knew, as they were spirited away first to Switzerland and then to Germany, was that their father "had had a great deal of trouble...