Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhodes, amid beaming good will, the delicacies from Cairo were consumed-jellied turkey, mixed vegetables, meat balls, chocolates, assorted liquors. The negotiators parted with smiles and handshakes. Doughty Dr. Bunche took ship for the Holy Land, to see with his own eyes how the armistice worked...
...army chose to. At week's end, Buenos Aires sources reported that the President had already suggested that he resign, only to be told to stay where he was and see the trouble through. The army might fire a president when it was good & ready; last week army chiefs may have suspected that Perón would like to get out from under now, shift the blame to other shoulders, then brace himself for a smashing comeback in the next elections...
...Very often it has been charged that we run interference for the United States and hardly ever carry the ball ourselves. As any football player knows, to win a game you have to have good interference, so that role, if we do play it, is an important enough...
...Vancouver, Wash, housewife who swept women's skiing honors at the winter Olympics last year, took a practical view of one of her trophies. "It's a lovely medal," she said thoughtfully, "but it's too heavy to wear and it won't make a good ashtray. What can you do with six ounces of pure gold...
Training for Thinkers. For his students, it was not always a pleasant experience. Morris Cohen seldom answered questions; he preferred to ask them. Like a modern Socrates ("though ... I lacked, except on rare occasions of good health, the courtesy of Socrates"), he wanted to whisk away his students' prejudices. Unlike Socrates, he felt that if their convictions vanished too, there was little he could do about it. He supplied no new doctrines to take the place of the ones he destroyed, gave his students no Cohen-made faith. His job as he saw it was to train "thinkers rather...