Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course to have U.N. operating just twelve miles away from our home office here in Manhattan (see map) saves our writers, editors and researchers a lot of travel time. It is also pleasant to learn that ten of the eleven members of the Security Council read TIME regularly. Although they will undoubtedly turn out to be our severest critics...
George Strausser Messersmith was U.S. consul general in Berlin when Hermann Goring paid him a call one day. Hitler's No. 2 man was in his usual arrogant mood. He swept his hand over a map of South America. There was one of Germany's spheres of influence, he boasted, and began pounding the table. Messersmith stopped him. "This is my house," Messersmith said coldly. "No one pounds the table here but me. If there is any pounding done, I will...
...Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta, were a new political party, the Movimento Unionista Italiano (Italian Unionist Movement). Its emblem was the Stars & Stripes, the Italian flag and a world map. The word spread through the fishing villages, vineyards and olive groves of southern Italy and Sicily, where almost every ragged family has a relative in the U.S. In last month's municipal elections, the Unionists won four local governments, elected a total of 227 aldermen. Last week jubilant Paladino announced that his followers now numbered 875,000 and that his party would run a full slate...
Geography. Not one understood one iota of the geography books they had been reading. I have practically stopped all formal geography (of which I know nothing anyway), and we have spent the first weeks learning what north, south, east & west mean and what a map is. We are studying our town; soon we shall be able to get a faint idea of the county...
...when we last embraced you, but if you do not see them coming back, do not wait, nor yet forget them. They saw the light that shined on The Way even if their feet did not feel the pavement. They and we stood by you, Veritas--the map you drew for us had been keenly perceived and boldly executed. Your disciples had bravely threshed unordered knowledge and had given us the grain to staff our life. But you seldom feel the sweat and blasphemy of living, while we anxiously look for earthly applications of our growing wisdom. We lost...