Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minds to work for bigger things, how we can some day live here in Washington, and probably be in Government politics or service. I set my aim at Congress. Don't laugh at me. Maybe it does sound rather egotistical and beyond reason, .but, Muriel, I do know others have succeeded...
...beanpole (6 ft. 1½ in.) bachelor with a dry sense of humor, Glazebrook writes on foreign policy with full attention to underlying economic and geographic factors. As JIB's boss, he will have the job of telling the other intelligence arms what they need to know about other countries-their steel production, flying weather, rivers & harbors, and the load limits of their bridges...
...country. But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands. All they have to say is: 'This is off the record, boys,' and our reporters can then trot in dutifully and tell us that they know the whole story, but that they can't write...
...humanism, he could only hope to guide men, as he had once urged them to act grandly. "Man has no nature," he once wrote. "He has a history." That history changed each moment, each moment bringing new decisions. It was an eternal "dialogue between man and his circumstances." To know those circumstances was the job of the philosopher; to act by them, mankind...
Chairman Sloan's stand-pattish conclusion: "Our primary concern must continue to be with those who really know opera and support it, those who believe in its basic pattern, those who love opera for what it is, not what someone else thinks it should be." There was no immediate response from Met Critic No. 1 Billy Rose. George Sloan's shafts had been flung just 30 hours after Billy (see PEOPLE) had flown off on a trip around the world...