Word: mend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naturally, Professor Shapley has run into some censor trouble. When he cabled instructions to Harvard's South African Observatory to "shoot nightly using whole battery" (meaning: watch Nova Puppis nightly with all telescopes), censors ordered him to mend his language. His most troublesome message was one announcing the discovery of Diamaca's Comet. Diamaca, a Rumanian amateur, cabled his news to Harvard by way of Denmark and Switzerland. A U.S. Navy officer promptly called on Professor Shapley. What, the Navy wanted to know, was the meaning of the last two words in the cable: "Popovici Stroemgren." After...
...Know Each Other." Gone was the Big Three's intangible, invaluable personal relationship. Nothing that Harry Truman might be or do could mend the ties of shared danger, joint responsibility and constant communication which bound Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. The dead President had described the nature and value of that relationship in his last major speech, his report to Congress on Yalta...
Economists, like other theologians, are mutually intolerant: Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet was no longer big enough to contain both of its respected doctors of finance. Minister of National Economy Pierre Mendès-France is a peppery proponent of controlled deflation, and Minister of Finance Rene Pleven, a suave supporter of controlled inflation. One day last week M. Mendès-France called on General de Gaulle, left his resignation. Two days later M. Pleven became Minister of National Economy and Finance...
Before he left for his home in the country-at Luoviers, where he is Mayor -M. Mendès-France unburdened himself of an earnest warning. The nation, he said, stood on the brink of a dangerous inflationary spiral. "Economic powers," particularly the Bank of France, had "brought to bear a strong, indiscreet but apparently most effective pressure" against his proposal for stern preventive measures. M. Mendès-France was sorrowful, not angry. He went off with the air of a doctor who expects to be called back...
...patient, meanwhile, did not seem sure which doctor she preferred. In general the leftist press regretted M. Mendès-France's departure. But it turned a not unhopeful face toward his successor. Said the resistance organ, Front National: "Your turn now, M. Pleven, to see what you can do. ... To you our hand...