Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting American diplomats turned down all attempts to rejuvenate June-dead UNRRA with the explanation that in their view the need for international relief agencies no longer exists. The only move toward future planning U. S. delegates approved was the formation of a toothless Council of Ten which may map out world food needs, but can't move a grain of wheat...
...whiskey loosely bind a diverse association of peoples. The world, struggling nervously with the problems of how to place in peaceable association even more diverse groups, finds the British Empire an embarrassment and an inspiration. Meanwhile, the Empire, a hodgepodge of real estate scattered all over the globe (see map), is changing more rapidly than ever in its confused history. Most of the changes turn around the sincere efforts of the British Government to satisfy (without exchanging anarchy for stability) colonial peoples' hopes of self-government...
...wall map was dotted with red, blue and white-crossed blue pins. Each represented a U.S. television, FM, or educational radio station. A short, wiry young man looked at the map, remarked: "A lot has happened in the past five years, and a lot more will happen in the next five." The speaker was Charles Ruthven Denny Jr., 34, whom President Truman named last week as chairman of the seven-man Federal Communications Commission...
...only 32, is the first, and happy choice, for a new series which New Directions says will feature "important modern writers whose books are not easily obtainable."* Dylan Thomas is Britain's most spectacular and distinguished younger poet, but barely half of his prose and verse (The Map of Love, New Poems, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog) has been printed in the U.S. One possible reason: most of Thomas' brilliant, tempestuous work is so shrouded in uncommon meanings and metaphors that the average reader is likely to find his work incomprehensible without a guide...
...Moyne was sent with the Huguenots who settled on the South Carolina coast in 1564, and was told to map and paint what he saw. A Spanish expedition wiped out the colony within a year, but Le Moyne escaped to a French ship, with a portfolio full of fastidiously painted reports. Among them: a sunrise sacrifice of a stuffed and garlanded stag, a huddle of Indian widows mourning before their king Outina and begging permission to marry again, and an exaggerated painting of an alligator hunt which might have given Europeans the idea that dragons abounded in America...