Word: looks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There is no finer spectacle," wrote Potter, "than the sight of the good Lifeman, so ignorant that he can scarcely spell the simplest word, making an expert look a fool in his own subject, or at any rate interrupting him in that stupefying flow, breaking that deadly one upness of the man who, say, has really been to Russia, has genuinely taken a course in psychiatry, or has written a book on something...
Black-Market Babies. The Soviet answer staggered even U.N.'s hardened connoisseurs of Russian logic. The Russians, rasped Ukrainian Delegate Vasili A. Tarasenko, were holding the women for their own protection. Only in the Soviet Union were women assured of fair treatment. Look at the U.S., he cried, some U.S. women are so poor that they have to sell their children. Triumphantly he cited some news clippings that told of a black market in adopted babies...
...same time India wanted to stay in the Commonwealth fold. She could ill afford to lose British economic, military and technical help. The British in India today, now that they no longer rule, are more popular than ever before. Living alone in the world does not look inviting, with the Communist colossus on India's northern border. Nearer to home, India is confronted with the terrible warning of Burma which fell into chaos and civil war after rashly severing all Commonwealth ties...
...paved the way for land reform; the estates of the old gentry had been bought and resold to 5,000,000 new, small, independent holders. It had given Japanese politics a new look; at parliamentary elections for the first time in history, candidates for office had gone hat in hand to solicit votes from ordinary folk...
...switched to a new phase-democratization and economic revival. But Russian veto of a peace treaty blocked MacArthur's plan to restore Japanese trade. U.S. trustbusters were still locked in stalemate with the Zaibatsu. Last summer the U.S. State Department intervened. Top Planner George Kennan took a long look at Japan. He recommended a basic change in policy, aimed at Japan's self-government, self-respect and self-support. Last December, a firm economic directive was finally drafted for MacArthur...