Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pitcher Bill Voiselle batted .097 last year, quite a disappointment to the big man. He wanted his average one point lower, to match both the number on his back and his home town, Ninety...
...other hand, the German people know how important the state of their country is to Western Europe at this time, from an economic or a military point of view. The fact that a political rupture within Germany is a constant headache to the West, is a good bargaining point for Social Democrats at Bonn. The growing hope among many of the German people for complete unification can also be exploited. In fact, Russia, in an effort to take advantage of those hopes, has already established a "People's Congress" in the Eastern Zone, which is ready to announce...
...Teachers. . . are one of the greatest injustices in Germany by the law against Nazlism. This law is undemocratic. Our best teachers were dismissed because they were only in name of the Nazi Party. Many of them were really adversaries of Nazilsm and were not ashamed in its time to point out the right way, but now they must go because they are of the party...
...majority of readers--the ones who don't stop to look twice--by sheer sustained invective if nothing else. It will give the Legion and the Klan, which don't worry about facts, new material for their screaming accusations. It can color the thinking of the intelligent to a point where the quarter-truths get by as half-truths, where the attitude of every newspaper reader is affected by something he doesn't believe...
There are areas of political and economic operation where public opinion may not hamper formal relations with Russia. But there could come a point where national psychology would be the determining factor between war and peace. Continuation of the present style of reporting can boost our national attitude way off balance at the end of a springboard. It's a high board, and below...