Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with deep seriousness: "The full stature of this man will only be proven by history, but I want to say here and now that there has never been a decision made under this man's Administration, affecting policies beyond our shores, that has not been in the best interest of this country. It is not the courage of these decisions that will live, but the integrity of them." (Harry Truman, deeply moved by the tribute from the man he most deeply respects, stood with his arms half outstretched as he sought for words. Finally, he gestured toward Marshall...
...show: tall, tight-lipped Sydney David Pierce, 47, onetime Olympic hurdler and Associated Press reporter. During World War II he was stationed in Washington, working on mutual production problems. Since last June, though still nominally Canadian ambassador to Mexico, he has been in Paris watching Canada's interest...
...responsible for the new interest in Diderot had been a fan for most of his life. But even to German-born Herbert Dieckmann, now a professor of Romance languages at St. Louis' Washington University, Diderot the man was still a "fantastic and unbelievable enigma." For one thing, most of his original manuscripts had disappeared...
...When we think of the early church," preached Davis, "we often think only of the greater leaders. We forget the many not so well known, like Barnabas, whose interest was not in himself but in the church and in people with troubles, such as Paul when the other disciples were still afraid of him, or Mark when Paul in turn gave Mark...
...20th Century-Fox Film Corp. voluntarily agreed to the first part of the Attorney General's suggestion on how moviemakers should divest themselves of part of their theater holdings (TIME, Oct.11). In a proposal filed with a New York federal court, 20th Century-Fox agreed to sell its interest in 260 partly owned theaters. Still to be determined was how many of its 460 wholly owned outlets the company would be allowed to keep...