Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legacy of Suspicion. At Osaka, Garcia delivered his message to Japanese merchants: "Among Japan's underdeveloped neighbors, the wounds of battle have not been completely healed. We know the most effective way to wipe out the legacy of suspicion and hostility is for Japan to extend them credits...
...seems, was stopped on Fifth Avenue by a Salvation Army lass shaking a tambourine for a holiday handout. Tallulah dipped into her handbag and produced a $50 bill. "Don't even bother to thank me, dahling," she growled as she dropped the bill into the tambourine. "I know what a perfectly ghastly season it's been for you Spanish dancers...
...news from the sales floors, automakers last week concentrated on stepping up production. Though Chrysler Corp. suffered a 14% drop in output because of labor troubles. General Motors scheduled a rise of 25%, Ford 21%. Not until dealers have all the cars they want, sometime in January, will automakers know whether the present spurt is temporary or the signal of a good year ahead. Only then will the industry know whether auto sales can avoid the sharp dip of last January, when the auto recession really...
...know of no time in our country's history when the forces of intelligent conservatism have been in greater danger of obliteration." So said Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield in the major speech before the National Association of Manufacturers' 63rd annual congress. In the kind of rousing talk that N.A.M. members like to hear, Summerfield warned that "America today teeters on the precipice of a labor-bossed Congress." was sure that President Eisenhower will propose legislation to protect workers "from exploitation by unscrupulous and corrupt union bosses." Unless antitrust law principles are applied to the "labor-boss monopoly...
Life as Sacrifice. Zhivago's Uncle Kolia, a kind of fellow traveler of Christianity, enunciates one of the book's major themes: "What you don't understand is that . . . history as we know it now began with Christ, and that Christ's Gospel is its foundation. Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies . . . The two basic ideals of modern man -without them...