Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The general attitude about atomic control got no farther than the first primitive reflex of greed and terror; the unkeepable secret must be kept. The general attitude toward racial problems was most sadly expressed by the more thoughtful Southerners, who said they only wished they could spend the next few...
The Giants. Two recently isolated giants, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., were suddenly everywhere. Russia was claiming colonies in Africa, making friends among the Arabs, gripping eastern Eu rope, regaining its economic position in Manchuria, actively concerning itself with the control of Japan. The U.S., which five years ago seemed...
One afternoon last week Clarence Howe, who has worked long & hard as wartime Munitions Minister, squeezed in a round of golf at the Lambton Golf & Country Club (near Toronto). He dropped his indifferent golfing before the 18th hole, headed for the locker room, showered, then went to the club tavern...
Radar's ability to report what it sees depends on differences in its targets' reflecting power (which engineers call the "dielectric constant"). Metal is an excellent reflector; earth, an indifferent one. Water also is a good reflector, but because of its flat surface, the radar beam caroms off...
Now RendÓn meets nightly with his rapidly increasing following in the Café Paris campaign headquarters, enthusiastically talks politics, even more enthusiastically passes the hat for the "campaign fund." The "fund" provides a better living than RendÓn's pick-me-ups as palm-reader, indifferent...