Word: mets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Sunday read a defiant, 4,000-word pastoral letter, delivered to them by couriers sent out from a secret meeting of the country's bishops. They read it despite nocturnal visits from the police, despite the warning of Communist Premier Zapotocky that further "antistate" activity would be met with arrests and trials. They were fortified with the words of their archbishop, Josef Beran, who remained in his Prague palace surrounded by armed plainclothesmen. "Do not allow yourselves to be intimidated by threats," he had written. "In these difficult times all priests are conscience-bound to inform the faithful...
...roof-garden ballroom of Batavia's elegantly seedy Hotel des Indes, 40 white-suited delegates and aides representing the Dutch, the Indonesians and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia met one evening last week to put the finishing touches on a Dutch-Indonesian agreement. After a quiet 45 minutes in the steamy 90° heat of the ballroom, the business was over. Jogjakarta, the Java capital which the Dutch had taken forcibly from the embryonic Indonesian Republic 6½ months ago (TIME, Dec. 27), would be peacefully returned...
...Other prognosticators repeated the crack made by Chicago Sportwriter Warren Brown when the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers met in the wretchedly played World Series of 1945: "I don't see how either of them...
...Trib told the story of Paul Grindle, an ex-Herald Tribune staffer and now a Massachusetts furnituremaker, who went to Washington a month ago hoping to sell furniture to federal agencies. There Grindle met Hunt and was quickly impressed by his "influence"; Hunt's offices were decorated with autographed photos of prominent politicos, including Harry Truman. Hunt rattled off the names of his "friends," including Presidential Military Aide Harry Vaughan ("my closest and dearest friend"), Louis Johnson, and others. Hunt, according to Grindle, claimed that he had swung many deals. Among them was the repurchase from the War Assets...
Concluded LIFE: "The moviemakers, as the Round Table Editors met them, were earnest and thoughtful men, who represented the good Hollywood . . . The movies need . . . 'more freedom for more men of talent' . . . But [it] must be fought for by the good Hollywood and by the people who believe in freedom . . . From this Hollywood . . . these people can get movies as good as they demand-but demand them they must...