Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major change from previous sessions will be incorporated in the 1949 program. 16 of the 24 courses in education will be given on a six-week schedule, ending August 13 instead of the regular August 27 date...
...victory made a major change in the political and strategic world picture on the western shore of the Pacific. From Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin Communism was now the major force. The western world merely held sentinel positions in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Indo-China, Malaya and Burma -all three in turmoil-lay beneath the Communist threat...
...leveling-off process, noted across the land, showed signs last week of also slowing down new wage raises. In the year's first major test of fourth-round demands, the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union lost its fight for a 10? increase in the New England cotton and rayon industry...
...touchy about harsh words from outsiders, listened last week to a plain-spoken spat between two of its own. Producer Sam Goldwyn began it by deciding to toss in his lot with the independent film producers (S.I.M.P.P.). He announced that he was quitting the two trade associations of the major studios (M.P.A.A. and A.M.P.P.), because "there must be a return to real free enterprise in our industry." Dapper Eric Johnston, who heads them both, took a deep breath and fired...
Nearly all the major characters are frustrated neurotics, neither certain of their aims in life nor at home in life: the men are unable to hold their wives, the women to remain faithful to their husbands. When the war puts Neil and Larry in uniform, they find something to believe in for the first time. Afterwards Neil stays in the Army out of cynicism and lack of direction, and Larry, his publishing house completely taken over by Communists, joins him in simple despair. The book ends on Larry's bewildered question: "What are we doing here...