Word: ism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight years ago, the Japanese Government demanded that Christian schools and some individual Christians take part in shrine ceremonies. Officially the Government tried to pass this off as a form of politeness to departed heroes, like D. A. R.-ism in the U. S. But Japanese don't fool themselves: Shrine Shinto is a religious rite. The Government pressed Japanese Catholics and Protestants to join "patriotic" ceremonies at Shinto shrines, has been as insistent about it as Red-fearing U. S. school boards are about saluting the flag...
...demagnetization chills it. After preliminary cooling with liquid helium, the salt is magnetized, the heat thus generated drawn off into a jacket filled with helium vapor; then demagnetization pushes the substance down one notch further into the cold. But the limits of this method, as applied to the magnet ism of molecules, have been nearly reached...
...urge their Negro maids to attend Communist rallies on their nights off. This triumph brought special inconveniences in its train. Workers asked few questions. But the intelligentsia were the most inquisitive and prying converts the Marxists had ever made: they were in the habit of reading about every new ism they embraced. They wanted to read about Communism too. There was very little to read...
Hitler's sweep through France did more to make Mexico see eye to eye with Washington than years of diplomatic talk. Last week as Nazis goose-stepped in Paris, the Mexican Government, which has played with or tolerated every ism in the atlas in the past few years, suddenly decided that it had better get in step with the Colossus of the North, if & when the Colossus decides what it is going...
...licked off them and the Stalinists sent back to the Kremlin... I hope the U. S. won't have to get into the war, but am not prepared to say that under certain circumstances American military participation would not be necessary and worth it." ∧ In the House, Ism-eater Martin Dies was lustily applauded for the first time in months when he launched a routine denunciation of isms and the C. I. O. ∧Its mind's eye swimming with "fifth columns," the House Immigration and Naturalization Committee last week took a quick look under...