Word: levers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singular Animal. But basic to Niebuhr's doctrine is another paradox-the lever of his cosmic argument and that part of his teaching which is most arresting and ruffling to liberal Protestantism's cozy conscience. It is the paradox of sin. Sin arises from man's precarious position in the creation...
...equally clear cut. The legislation, it feels, must provide for enough money to make the program one of recovery rather than one of relief. The legislation must provide a positive program for European aid, not a negative anti-Russian economic weapon. It must not be used as a lever to influence the internal politics of the European nations involved. Finally, it must be implemented as much as possible through the United Nations. This program has deliberately been exempted from rigorous technicalities. The Committee, again displaying sanity did not feel itself qualified to present Congress with a detailed bill. The object...
...artificers who put the music into salable form. If a disc jockey and a radio station collect revenue from the commercial use of the product, why not the men who made it? Petrillo was not the first to ask this question, but he was a man with a lever to pry out an answer...
Empire Employees. Many of the new leaders-U.S. Steel Corp.'s Ben Fairless, Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, General Electric Co.'s Charles E. Wilson, Henry Kaiser, Eastern Air Lines, Inc.'s Eddie Rickenbacker, Procter & Gamble Co.'s Richard R. Deupree, Sam Goldwyn and Radio Corp. of America's David Sarnoff -fitted the rags-to-riches pattern set by some of 1917's tycoons. And some of the leaders still had the old empire-building names-Harvey S. Firestone Jr., Henry Ford II and Nelson Rockefeller...
...night while everybody is watching Karin dance Swan Lake, Margaret pulls a lever to put out all the lights. This winsome prank opens a trapdoor onstage instead. Karin falls through and injures herself so badly that she can never dance again. How Margaret suffers! But at last she confesses and Karin forgives her, partly because "she's a strange child," partly because "today is today...