Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana, young (28) Philip Willkie stepped onto the first rung of the political ladder by winning the Republican nomination to the state legislature from Rush and Henry counties (which have not gone Democratic since the Civil War). The magic of the Willkie name helped some; but the main reason for his nearly 5-to-1 victory over a candidate who had not been defeated in 35 years was his own tireless stumping: 7,800 miles by automobile; 16 hours a day of doorbell-ringing...
Delegates disagreed with Gromyko; they had been exhausting a series of Soviet proposals since A.E.C.'s inception. All Russian proposals had had two main ingredients : 1) the U.S. would have to stop making bombs and get rid of its stockpile at once; and 2) the control (or even the inspection) of Soviet atomic plants by a true international agency would be an interference with Soviet "sovereignty." The Russians wanted no one to have any secrets-except the Russians. Chided the majority-backed resolution, in the understatement of the year: "Secrecy in the field of atomic energy is not compatible...
...main anniversary event was a banquet too big for the club to handle: two dining rooms were taken at the Windsor Hotel. Quebec's party hierarchy was on hand. So were 13 members of the federal Cabinet, and at the last minute Prime Minister Mackenzie King showed...
...telephones, both "main lines" and extensions from main lines, within the University, will connect with each other through a simple dialing of the extension number, in place of the previous oral method...
...that once the political opposition is driven underground, practically nothing can eradicate it, although infringements by the government on civil rights increase constantly. The Mundt Bill, if it is passed, would only be the first milestone on the road to the very police-state system which it is the main problem to avoid...