Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, we began to consolidate our 21 widely scattered editions, including the wartime V-mail miniature which many an ex-G.I. still keeps as a souvenir of his overseas duty. These became TIME Atlantic, printed in Paris; TIME Pacific, printed in Tokyo; TIME Latin America, printed in Havana, and TIME Canadian, printed in Chicago...
...week's end, however, as more and more of the facts came out, Lord Beaverbrook was left to cry shame alone. The rival Daily Mail, which had originally urged the government to "turn it down," after thinking it over a few days, concluded: "On the face of it there is much to be said for the Trinidad oil deal...
...both sides. But the experiment proved a success: the service's monthly Southern School News has walked the tightrope of factual reporting so skillfully that partisans on opposite sides now look up to it, and an increasing number of Southern newspapers are carrying its stories. A single mail brought subscription renewals from Georgia's Segregationist Herman Talmadge and Desegregationist and Novelist Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith. Last week the service's correspondents were back at their posts throughout the South after a conference in Nashville to plan another year of "providing accurate, unbiased information...
Such balance on the tightrope produces some exasperated mail. Wrote one Detroit reader: "Please state which end you are working for. You are not deffinet." To Southern Schools News, that comment-especially since it was scrawled on a renewal slip-was high tribute...
...Sighing in exasperation as our frowsily dressed wife presents us, at eventide, with the day's accumulation of bills, opened mail, and sundry matrimonial recriminations...