Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...support Tito just enough to keep him in fighting trim against Stalin. But if this policy were to be extended indiscriminately, the U.S. might soon find itself subsidizing Communist police states hostile to itself (e.g., Yugoslavia), without real assurance that they will remain hostile to Moscow. A case in point is China's Mao Tse-tung, who is currently being sold to the U.S. as the Tito of Asia by Authors Edgar Snow, Owen Lattimore and others who until recently used to peddle the disastrous line that China's Communists were mainly "agrarian reformers...
...like a contest between a canny, battle-weary old boxer and a wiry young puncher. The Argentines rode their ponies like gauchos at a festival, leaned spectacularly from their saddles to swipe at the ball. They led at the halfway point...
Over & above these professional qualifications, Colonel Boyd demands that the test pilots have agreeable personalities. They are, he feels, ambassadors of the Air Force to civilian engineers and designers. They must criticize airplanes sharply, point out defects, suggest changes. Everybody is happier if such work can be done tactfully. Colonel Boyd is skillful at selecting his ambassadors: one notable fact about them is that they have pleasant personalities (another is that the married ones have pretty wives...
...gourds and sunflowers, hunting with a .22 rifle, and fishing in little Mud River. He played in the school band, starting with a big bull tuba but settling finally for a slide trombone. He went to Methodist Sunday school, stayed out of trouble, and was quiet almost to the point of being timid. "Nobody ever noticed Charlie Yeager much," says Lyle E. Ashworth, a classmate, "until 1943 when he buzzed the town in a P47 and sent old Mrs. Lon Richardson to the hospital with a case of nerves...
...sometimes sinister figures that seemed to hover uncertainly about the edges of his pictures, like the onlookers that interrupted his work. The paintings are crammed with signs reading Coffee Coffee Coffee, Goat, or ABCDEFGHIJK, and with crooked street lamps, unlikely stoplights, and one-way signs that often as not point straight up or down...