Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well I remember the dreary and profitless hours studying Latin, literature, history and other inane and dry subjects. And in college a continuation of the same program. What a waste of my time. Much better it would have been had I been taken out of school at the age of 14 and put to work and tried out at various vocations to discover what pleased me; and if I found I needed more book learning, then, and only then, I could return to the proper school to learn what I needed, instead of being filled with a lot of useless...
...story was different. Cabled a TIME correspondent after visiting a Paris diesel factory: "They [the P.O.W.s] looked exactly like the French workers next to them. Many wore berets, had cigarette butts sticking to their upper lips just like the French workers; even the movements and gestures seemed to be Latin, and had lost the German rigidity. There was not a single example of a Prussian haircut,. . . two of them were even exaggerating the fashion of Parisian youngsters and wore their hair so long that they had to pin it back with a long buckle. Said one of them...
Until President Truman shelved the idea at Rio last summer, Latin America had hoped there would be a Marshall Plan for the Western Hemisphere, too. Last week, Latin America learned how substantially it would benefit from a plan designed almost exclusively for the reconstruction of Europe...
Under the plan sent to Congress by Harry Truman, the U.S., in effect, would supply dollars to Europe to buy goods from Latin America. The plan provided that Latins shoulder part of the trade deficit themselves by grants and credits to Europe. But U.S. dollars spent in dollar-short Latin America on goods for Europe might total as much as $300 million a year...
...southern neighbors, only Argentina could sell Europe a significant amount of goods for Marshall Plan dollars. Argentina, which already holds most of Latin America's foreign exchange, would therefore get the lion's share of the money...