Word: inked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks of day & night sessions by Peron's new National Economic Council had done little to stem the nation's tide of red ink. As a last resort, the council decided that Argentina would just have to borrow a lot of dollars. But from whom? With Argentines already owing U.S. businessmen an estimated $400 million, private U.S. banks were unlikely to put up any more. Nor was the World Bank, which Argentina had steadily snubbed, or the U.S. Export-Import Bank...
...delegation of local fräuleins asked if something couldn't be done about Russian soldiers molesting German women. Said the commandant: "Always carry some ink with you. In case of distress, pour it over the soldier's clothes. Since every soldier has but one uniform, I can easily find out the culprit from the ink blot...
Sometimes, as happened last week, Marsh's cast of characters appears uptown, in a thick-carpeted gallery. He presents them in big, delicate drawings done with a brush and Chinese ink, and oils gleaming with thin glazes of subdued color. He worries continually about his methods, buttonholes fellow painters for advice. "I never know just how to go about a picture," he explains. "Each one takes a new focus...
...York City's Robert Moses is a practical man, who believes that one park under construction is worth a quart of green ink on a city map. As Park Commissioner and the city's construction coordinator, he has done more to reshape New York's aging face than any other man in the last 14 years. The New Yorker's Lewis Mumford is what Moses scornfully calls "an Ivory Tower" planner, a devoted disciple of Scotland's famed planner, Sir Patrick Geddes, and a learned critic who for years has been examining Manhattan...
...Britons had yet read General Dwight Eisenhower's war memoirs, Crusade in Europe (TIME, Nov. 22).* But by last week Anglo-American waters were already ink-black with controversy over them. The British press, which reserves to itself the right to criticize British heroes, broke out with salvoes of criticism of General...