Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every chapter. When Dorothea's son wishes to enlist in the Navy, Miss Howe's comment as novelist is "No man is an island," a reference which since the publication of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has been fighting it out with "This above all" as the most overworked phrase in all literature...
...hundred and one years ago, as the U.S. approached the Mexican War of 1846, a Democratic editor found a defiant and memorable phrase: "Manifest Destiny." The phrase fitted the temper of the times, and salved the country's conscience: the U.S. was not really hijacking California from Mexico. It was destiny...
...Equality of Dissatisfaction." Since Stalin had probably promised Trieste to Tito, any solution would have to save face all around. France's Georges Bidault, doing a magnificent job as conciliator in the midst of his other troubles (see FOREIGN NEWS), hit on just the right phrase: "We are striving here for an equality of dissatisfaction...
...dash and balderdash, gasps: "Somebody ought to give him a screen test." Hearst begs him to accept $50,000 a year for some random reportage. He has another bedside chat with the President (Lanny edits one of F.D.R.'s speeches, in which he invents and inserts the phrase "arsenal of democracy"), and is off to see Adolf Hitler chew a rug. Göring smuggle a swallow of dope, and "Rudi" Hess resolve to fly to England...
...Truman would do if the miners struck again. He would seize the mines. He would also promise to carry on negotiations after the mines had been seized-if the miners would continue to work. But would they? At week's end, a rarely puzzled John Lewis made the phrase of the week: "The whole situation gives one furiously to think." For once, everyone could agree with John Lewis...