Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fleabite. In defense of the price boost, Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace struck a querulous note. He berated "the pastime or indoor sport" of blaming all economic ills on the steel industry. "Until we stop raising costs," he said, "we can't stop raising prices." Anyway, he added, the cost of steel was only "a fleabite" in the cost of living...
Although it was much bigger than a fleabite, Grace had a point. Since 1939, steel prices, including last week's jump, have increased about 37% as compared to a rise of more than 92% in the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of all wholesale commodity prices...
Another Emmanuel product, Miss Grace O'Neill of Boston, sighed sadly in reminiscing over the past weeks, as she voted "thumbs down on eight out of ten of your typical Harvard men. But then," she brightened, "there's always the other...
...living, the spirit of adventure, and the energy of the average American. 'America is a democratic country; it is governed by the people, by ordinary people like you and me,' it seems to say on every page . . . But this democracy can only stand fast by the grace of freedom, the safeguard for world peace. Therefore, TIME continually illuminates (as does the majority of the outstanding American press) the inroads being made by Communism on this human right. TIME's tone toward Soviet Russia and her sphere of influence is now ironic, now reserved, now protesting...
Everyone who heard these two items knew that they added up to a dilemma. Some day, as Stassen said, the dilemma would have to be resolved "in the minds and hearts of men, with the grace of God." But at that point it began to sound like wishful thinking, and what could wishful thinking do against Communist fanaticism...