Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week ended in Paris on a subdued but distinct note of fear. Albert Petitjean, who runs a small bar off the Champs Elysées, and who is our favorite average citizen, was outwardly unworried when I asked him this morning how he thought things would pan...
Hughes was so worried that he even tried to get Pan American Airways to take over T.W.A. through an exchange of stock. Pan Am President Juan Trippe said no. Then Hughes reportedly tried to persuade Frye to give up T.W.A.'s money-losing international routes, concentrate on domestic routes. Frye said no. Last week, as he settled down for a long rest on his Arizona ranch, Frye snapped...
...Bogotá the airport radio operator for the airline (Avianca, a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways) received a routine message: the DC-4 was 30 minutes out, would soon ask for landing instructions. For several hours there was no more. Then came a message from upcountry. Thirty miles north of the field, Avianca's DC-4 nad crashed into the vertical, cloud-shrouded face of Mt. Tablazo. a 9,000-foot peak in the Sierra Sabana range. Then it fell flaming, 1,000 feet into the ravine below. The DC-4's 53 were dead...
Alexei has had considerable success in encouraging pan-Slav propaganda and promoting other Soviet aims in the Iron Curtain countries. But elsewhere Alexei is not having much luck. Most Orthodox clergy are nonpolitical, like Tokyo's new Bishop Benjamin, of whom TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans cabled last week: "He is a simple, soft-spoken man who constantly rambled into a report of his sewing school, showing little interest in the ado over his bishopric...
Welles refused to agree that "intervention" should be classified as a mere "fetish word." Referring to Larreta's attempt to force out Argentina's Peron by Pan-American action, Welles applauded the objective, but added...