Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acheson refuses to accept the Knowland proposal. Instead, he has his aides looking for some other bill to serve the same purpose. His attitude has convinced leading Republican Senators that he really opposes the whole idea, still sides with the department's dust-settling faction. At the moment, the chance of a positive program in China seems slim...
...Ground. At External Affairs, St. Laurent quickly made it clear that despite his background and training in nationalist Quebec, he was international-minded. He was one of the first statesmen to promote the idea of the North Atlantic pact. When the idea became a diplomatic reality, he sold the pact almost singlehanded to the Canadian people. Wherever he went he explained the pact in his customary ABC style of public speaking. He never missed a bet. "If we [all the people in the world] loved one another," he said last Christmas Eve when distributing gifts among a group of Quebec...
...Homicide) Rice, 41, had an explanation for the cops: it was all just a plot twist to win back her estranged fifth husband, Henry W. De Mott Jr., 29, whom she was suing for divorce. "It was a foolish thing to do," she admitted, "but sounded like a good idea at the time...
...Texas Cancer Bulletin was started early in 1948 by Dr. Randolph Lee Clark Jr., director of Texas University's M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research, in Houston. He had a sound idea: most cancer patients are seen first by general practitioners who cannot cull all the journals for specialized articles; therefore they should be taught, through short, snappy, easy-to-read articles, how to spot the disease quickly...
...degrees (only one out of 100 think they should "do something else" besides going to college). But more than two-thirds of the farmers and wage earners in the survey also want a college education for their sons. A smaller majority (56%) think it would be a pretty good idea for the U.S. Government to start passing out federal scholarships to send "qualified" youngsters who "otherwise couldn't afford...