Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average Western European, the Marshall Plan is rather welcome evidence that the U.S. is not at the moment pulling out of Europe. Beyond that conclusion, Europeans find U.S. intentions obscure. Neither the words of Washington nor the explanations of their own governments have persuaded most Europeans, for example, that Marshall Plan aid is not basically just another loan-that is supposed to be paid back some day, with interest. How poorly U.S. aid has been described abroad is clear from the fact that 62% of the Frenchmen interviewed, and 61% of the Britons, think that ERP is fundamentally a loan...
...subject of freedom was not academic. In these and other countries of the West it was still possible for ordinary men and women to discuss freedom out loud. TIME planned to include one other European country in the survey, but at the last moment it turned out to be impossible to ask such questions in Czechoslovakia this spring...
Douglas wants a "strong, alert, and mobile military machine" to back up this course of action. Whether he feels Universal Military Training and Selective Service necessary is undisclosed. Specific declarations may have to wait until closer to convention-time. For the moment the Justice has set forth a liberal credo that is remarkable in vision and courage...
...basketball players Pat McCormick and George Hauptfuhrer, as well as an ex-football man, Mary Jenkins, form the Crimson hurdling corps at the moment. McCormick, who will do both the lows and highs, was an all Ohio scholastic hurdler. He's a Sophomore. Hauptfuhrer, this year's basketball captain, will run the 110 highs and will also high jump. He will be aided in both events by Jenkins who came here from Tufts back...
...questions that interested her. She sought to penetrate beyond the appearances of daily experience to the inner core of life. For this she employed three essential symbols : Time, Space and the Sea, the perennial aspects of life's hazy patterns. By concentrating all of her attention on a moment's experience she tried to detect its ties with the past, its anticipation of the future. And while she could not answer the questions she posed, she found in the sea, with its recurring waves, a mirror of the ultimate reality of human existence...