Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must seek constantly to give it vigor. . . . It is true, as I said long since, that it is only a 'beachhead in the battle for peace. . . .' But ... it is a vital beachhead. ... Its machinery and powers are limited. . . . But it is flexible. It can grow. ... Do not sell the United Nations Organization short. Do not undermine what you have in an academic discussion of what you wish...
...form of Lauren Bacall, who is cast as a British coal tycoon's bored daughter. It is unhappy casting. The Bacall publicity has plainly pushed the young woman too far too fast. Neither a great beauty nor a great actress, her voice and facial expressions, both limited, soon grow monotonous. She is not even the interesting personality which careful direction made of her in To Have and Have...
...More Optical Truths. What did trouble him was a haunting conviction that trees, red or green, should have leaves and grow out of the ground. It took him many years to learn to paint pictures without worrying about what they represented. The big moment came in 1927 when he got interested in an eggbeater and nailed it to a table in his bedroom. He painted the eggbeater steadily for twelve months...
This is still pretty small compared with circulation giants like LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post -but it is many times higher than TIME'S young founders ever dreamed their Newsmagazine could possibly grow. (As late as 1933 there were some very serious discussions here about whether TIME would still be TIME if we let it cross the 500,000 mark...
Last week U.N.O. was dragged from its nursery and looked at in the glare of new responsibilities. It did not measure up; it never had. That conclusion left two unanswered questions: 1) could U.N.O. ever grow into a force strong enough to bring order to a lawless world? 2) if not, what substitute was feasible...