Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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An Indifferent Lot. Boston is top-heavy with newspapers. It has eight, and only New York City with nine dailies has more. Among the eight, the Herald stands second lowest in circulation (144,000), owes its prosperity to advertisers' knowledge that it is read by the people with the...
The shouts and sobs of desperate Jews, the hobnailed clatter of angry Tommies, the plash of bulging refugee ships, had been heard around the world-in Whitehall, where a harassed Labor Government hoped that the outraged moment would soon fade into the indifferent past; in the White House, muffled in...
The U.S. stars blamed their indifferent play on rarefied air (altitude at Mexico City: 7,325 ft.). But part of their trouble was not altitude, but attitude. Recently Monterrey, tied with Vera Cruz in the 14th inning, had a man on second. On a safe hit to left, the base...
In combat as a divisional psychiatrist, Dr. Maskin found that the time-consuming techniques of psychiatry had no place amid the rush of war. The psychiatrist had to improvise rules of thumb, apply them quickly and uncritically. He made enormous concessions to the basic military problem of cowardice and took...
... "Leprosy is less contagious than almost any other communicable disease" [TIME, 17] is correct up to a certain point but should be amplified. It is the adult who is highly resistant-though in the history of Kalaupapa Settlement of Hawaii two missionaries, both . . . indifferent regarding contact, have acquired the infection...