Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communism is intrinsically wrong . . ." etc. This is misinformation to many readers, since you forgot to mention that the Pontiff in this encyclical speaks exclusively of atheistic Communism. That adjective atheistic changes radically the meaning of the statement...
...group, backed by organized labor and its sympathizers, the intellectuals; they want to gallop all the time. . . . The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states. And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare to mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please...
...your splendid article on Dr. Alexander Fleming and penicillin you neglected to mention the grandmothers who used that remedy constantly in the early days when doctors were not an everyday luxury. I remember, when I was a very little girl and grandmother stayed at our house, how she would sort of guiltily and secretly sneak away a piece of bread when no one was looking, add it to her crock of penicillin (it was not known by that name then). She kept up her laboratory in that crock, so there was a remedy for every emergency. Grandmas were wonderful doctors...
...mention these facts not only because we're proud of them (even though TIME'S business is not scoops) but as an illustration of the philosophy which guides all our "back-of-the book" departments. Almost never, whether in Medicine, Art, Science, Books or Education, does the kind of news break which would make us stop the presses-as happens so often these days in World Battlefronts and Foreign News. Nevertheless, every back-of-the-book editor is just as eager as his colleagues up front to keep you quickly and reliably informed on the real and significant...
...visas, exit permits, transit permits, ship sailings. They are harrowed by terrible doubts: should a family leave its ailing grandmother to die alone, or should they sit by her side until death-and then find the visas have expired? "Would it be better for a pregnant woman not to mention the fact [to the consul]? Would it be better to conceal the seriousness of an illness or to exaggerate it? Was it wise to admit that the German commission might demand extradition if there was any further delay...