Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually much credit is due to CBS newscasting for being neither impartial nor without principles. Its accounts of the outbreak of the war were instinct with editorial views of the dangers of totalitarianism...
There was also an assortment of dingbats that could be used by all who felt the first urgings of the adman's decorative instinct: hands with pointing fingers, flower-&-ribbon arrangements, screaming American eagles. Publishers grabbed up these canned illustrations because they forced advertisers to increase the amount of space they bought or cut down the typographical composition in each ad, and therefore the labor cost. Advertisers used them because they liked them...
...amphibious war. Therefore any mood of overconfidence should be severely repressed. . . . All large and amphibious operations, especially if they require the cooperation of two or more countries, require long months of organization, with refinements and complexities hitherto unknown. In war all impulses, impatient desires and sudden flashes of military instinct cannot hasten the course of events...
Died. Henry Charles Donovan, 74, for 40 years top-ranking U.S. wheat crop forecaster; of a heart attack; in Peru, Ill. Born & raised a farmer, salty, white-thatched Donovan developed his knack, a combination of instinct and statistics, as a farm-machinery salesman...
About the peace he is more deeply concerned. It would be a fatal mistake, he feels, to impose upon the Japanese a form of government "for which they have no instinct, no wish, and no preparation. . . . The peace must be thoughtful, the conditions wise, and Japan's vitality and insistence be constantly in our minds." Here those who are familiar with Japan will think of one great lack in Dr. Eckstein's book. His acquaintance with the Japanese is largely confined to the urban middle and upper classes. Of the tremendous proletariat he knows and says little...