Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their distress quickly faded before what they regarded as an extraordinary note: "No flies." Said Franklin: "The most remarkable development in the world in the past 50 years." The British delegates, who, like all Socialists, love tidy planning, learned that cards are posted in each house, on which the resident must note the number of flies, rats and cockroaches killed. "The householder's rent is raised if insects are found on the premises," explained Franklin. He added, with the expansive generalization that characterized the delegates' utterances: "I don't think the peasants are very interested in political...
...Clem Attlee as gullible as he seems? It is hard to tell from his curious, deadpan way of writing and speaking. His sentences frequently end on a tentative note, as if the point will come in the next paragraph. He can be bafflingly bland. Sample (from his autobiographical account of his first trip to Moscow in 1936): "Unfortunately, my visit preceded by a few weeks the big purges, which removed a number of [the leading men] I had contacted, notably Marshal Tukhachevski." Attlee could walk with Dante through hell and emerge remarking that "different people had different tastes...
...officially) killed in action. Nor was a U.S. plane shot down last week by an (official) enemy. Nonetheless, a U.S. plane was shot down by Russian fighters in the Japan Sea, 40 miles (by U.S. count) outside Soviet territorial waters. The U.S. State Department sent Moscow a note calling the attack "wanton and unprovoked." Republican Senate Leader William Knowland said that the U.S. should break off diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. because of the plane incident...
...earlier hours, radio religion ranges from the evangelical thunder of Pasadena's Rev. Herbert Armstrong ("Catastrophic happenings will soon shake the world!") to the fundamentalist tenets of Grand Rapids' Dr. Richard De Haan ("Read the Bible closely and never out of context . . ."). Television's religious note is more often interdenominational and inspirational. This week Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) and his wife devoted 30 filmed minutes (CBS) to assuring viewers that an inferiority complex should not prevent financial success. The Peales told how a friend of theirs, a perennial business failure, utilized...
Rorty and Decter recognize the necessity of 1) a firm internal security system, and 2) congressional investigations of subversion. But they hold that Anti-Communist McCarthy has consistently used Communists' methods, e.g., the false charge of treason. In the process, they note, he has attacked a wide range of loyal and respected Americans, has seriously disrupted the operations of the U.S. State Department and the Army Signal Corps, and has diverted attention from the real problems of fighting Communism abroad...