Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Thursday, by the U.S.S.R.'s promise, the Berlin blockade will be lifted. Eleven days later, the Council of Foreign Ministers will meet in Paris to discuss the future of Germany (see INTERNATIONAL). U.S. officialdom this week was like a man who had been pushing against a door which someone had been holding shut from the other side. Now, suddenly, the door was thrown open. There, nodding and smiling enigmatically, was the U.S.S.R...
...people who have been discussing it can now find out what it means ("a . . . theory of man," says the new dictionary, "which expresses the individual's intense awareness of his contingency and freedom . . ."). Onetime Texas Congressman Maury Maverick's great contribution, gobbledygook, for the verbiage of officialdom, is also there, along with a learned note that it derives from the gobblings of turkeys. F.D.R. had contributed iffy (for questions) and H. L. Mencken ecdysiast (for stripteaser...
...military airport outside the city the twin-engined Mei-Ling (named after Madame Chiang) dropped to earth after the short hop from within the city wall where Nanking's officialdom had gathered to see him off. Chiang said quick goodbyes to Vice President Li, Cabinet Minister Chang Chun and several others who had anticipated his moves correctly. Then he climbed aboard the plane and pulled the door shut himself. The Mei-Ling thundered down its runway at 4:15, climbed and circled Purple Mountain where the white stone of Sun Yat-sen's vast mausoleum reflected the last...
...thing, they're eating better-self-sufficiency in food is a priceless advantage in the current crisis. They may have more Communist trouble, but it looks like they will be able to take care of it. The Dutch, too, are on the road back -when even conservative Dutch officialdom admits that things are better, they're better...
...discussion of the so-called "official" attitude concerning examinations and examination proctors contained in an anonymous letter to the Editors...seems to offer a challenge to the more satisfied and conservative element of Harvard's "small officialdom," i.e. the proctors with long service...