Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret Service and duly pronounced White Russians). The President slipped out before the intermission, went to the Statler Hotel to address a savings bond rally. As he left for the concert again he said: "I've got to escort them [Mrs. Truman and Margaret] home. What I mean is, I have to escort them to the White House. There's a decided distinction and a difference...
...jockeying for position looms ahead for now until November and especially for the year following. What if Wallace piles up 5,000,000 votes? How does the founding convention of the new progressive party crack that? Wednesday afternoon Reuther did not think these were issues. "We didn't necessarily mean a 'fourth party,'" he commented, "but we did mean realignment." Wallace's backing isn't going to hold and "in any event when the Communist Party gets through using him, they'll drop him like an old shoe." Reuther disclosed that the CIO will "very shortly" speak up on foreign...
...Dictator Somoza's government. They were wrong. Later, to shut off the guessing, white-haired Ambassador Dawson telephoned 17 embassies (but not the Costa Rican, Honduran or Dominican, whose governments recognized Somoza last year) and made it clear that inviting a neighbor to a neighborhood powwow did not mean approval of the way the neighbor acted...
Margin for Error. Oregon's high venereal disease rate in the '30s had worried Dr. E. C. Brown, a VD specialist who thought that more knowledge would mean less disease. Before his death in 1939, Brown gave $500,000 to the University of Oregon for sex education. Six years later, the state legislature made the subject compulsory in junior and senior high schools. Oregon first tried pamphlets, lectures and then lantern slides, but found too much margin for error and embarrassment on the part of teachers. In 1946 Professor Lester F. Beck, a University of Oregon psychologist, worked...
...like wars and earthquakes -huge blows of fate under which a man must either collapse or grin and buckle his belt. And the men of Brensham always choose to grin, because what saves them-and makes them more fabulous than life-size-is that they never condescend to be mean and sniveling mortals...