Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle for Suchow last month, Fred Gruin, TIME Inc.'s Nanking bureau chief, was faced with the prospect of either getting a correspondent and a photographer to the front for an eyewitness account of the fighting or confessing to his editors in New York that he did not know the score. Both the Nationalists and the Communists were claiming the victory...
...midst of that clamor last week, Chambers resigned as a senior editor of TIME. "When TIME hired me in 1939," he wrote in his statement, "its editors knew that I was an ex-Communist; they did not know that espionage was involved . . . After nine years of work done in good conscience, I have been called upon to expose the darkest and most dangerous side of Communism-espionage. This can be done only if a man who knows the facts will stand up and tell them without regard to the cost or consequences to himself. I cannot share this indispensable ordeal...
...first place, the Council president had evidently neglected to ask his associates what they thought of the recommendations of the subcommittee on food, for during the meeting, only two Council members seemed to know what those proposals contained. Consequently, the meeting was barely under way when Councilmen began arguing among themselves, presenting motions and counter-motions, until they has bumbled away 35 minutes of radio time...
...brought up the matter of the member of the official Visiting Committee on Food who suggested that Vice-President Reynolds hire a competent outside authority to scrutinize Dining Hall operations. This gentleman recognized the fact that the Visiting Committee lacked both the time and the technical know-how to attempt a thorough investigation. His proposal that a group of non-University experts do the job was quite pertinent, but this sensible idea also failed to appear during the Council's open meeting...
...impressed with the way the natives held themselves." The way they what? "Held themselves. It's my theory that the English don't hold themselves up so well because of their climate, constantly walking into the wind and so forth, whereas the Burmese grow up towards the sun. You know, Memorial Church reminds me somehow of Burma." I suggested she meant Memorial Hall. It could be Burmese. "No, Memorial Church, with all its whiteness, struck me that way when I first...