Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irving Langmuir's ants need not have drowned [TIME, Aug. 28] had they realized the potentialities of jet propulsion. As a boy in western Washington, I used to toss large black ants into our quarry swimming hole. After a few preliminary struggles to orient themselves to the nearest shore, they would squirt a jet of formic acid from a convenient rear port and be shot six or eight inches nearer safety. Not being streamlined (and rudderless), these insects would re-aim and repeat the process until they were able to scramble out. Perhaps our Western ants are just smarter...
...depends where he looks, says Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury. Speaking last week in London's red brick Church House, in the shadow of Westminster Abbey, the archbishop denounced "the black tyranny of ... atheistic and imperialistic Communism" in Eastern Europe. But he thought that Communism in the Orient might wear a different guise. Said...
...unsinkable aircraft carrier and submarine tender, ideally located" to checkmate the U.S. "Nothing could be more fallacious than the threadbare argument of those who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific that if we defend Formosa we alienate continental Asia. Those who speak thus do not understand the Orient...
...Dangerous Fallacy. "Nothing could be more fallacious than the threadbare argument by those who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific that if we defend Formosa we alienate continental Asia. Those who speak thus do not understand the Orient...
...Chicago's Loyola University. A quiet, resourceful woman who specializes in criminal law and domestic relations, she served 18 years as a referee in Chicago's juvenile court, since then has developed a thriving practice on Chicago's South Side. On a tour of the Orient last year, Edith Sampson showed that she was adept at the kind of debate which breaks out in the U.N. Heckled by an Indian about racial conditions in the U.S., she conceded that there were shortcomings, but added: "I would rather be a Negro in America than a citizen...