Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same issue of TIME, the Spanish philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset, may have explained the rise of Senator Humphrey-and many another modern politician. He assures us that the world is "suffering from a 'vertical invasion' of the masses." It has been "taken over by the commonplace mind...
What was good for the country yesterday is not necessarily good for the country today . . . The people seek leaders who will speak for their ideas without compromise. They want leaders not only for the people but from the people. Robert A. Taft may have silver-spoon grandeur but Hubert H. Humphrey has dust-bowl guts...
...issue of the York (Maine) Weekly turned up in the office. According to the column and a half story accompanying the picture, Charles W. Plaisted, obviously a reader of TIME, was about to celebrate his 100th birthday. To satisfy our curiosity about Mr. Plaisted, who may be the oldest reader of TIME extant, we asked Jeff Wylie, chief of our Boston bureau, to see him on his farm at York Corner...
...almost every country, Acheson went on, "There is some nucleus of skill, some group of people whose technical abilities can be expanded with help from the outside." The U.S. would work with these people. If successful, the program would also "create the conditions under which capital may flow into those countries. [The President] did not say this was to be governmental capital...
...tung. The victor let the vanquished dangle. The Communist radio broadcast a statement that there could be no peace before the government had demonstrated its "sincerity" by handing over "war criminals" to the Communists: "Chiang Kai-shek is especially important. The said criminal has now fled and may very possibly go abroad to hide beneath the cloak of American and British imperialism. You must act swiftly to arrest this criminal." Chiang Kai-shek was staying in his native village of Fenghua, from which he had set out 43 years ago to fight for China's freedom...