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Word: pointing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second year of the European Recovery Program, $45 million for economic assistance to Greece and Turkey and $912,500,000 for U.S. occupation costs in Germany, Japan and Austria. Still to be considered were another $45 million to get the President's Point Four program under way (see BUSINESS) and $150 million to help bolster the economy of Korea. Total outlay for U.S. foreign aid since the end of World War II: $20 billion". Former enemies Italy, Germany and Japan got roughly a third of the handout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Friendship | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...less than fruitful week for the U.N. At one point during the Political Committee's debate, as a Byelorussian delegate kept sledgehammering away on a procedural point, Fayez El-Khouri of Syria sighed: "We cannot all withstand the pressure of these meetings. If the representative of Byelorussia has a strong nervous and physical system, I confess that for my part I sometimes need rest, moral and spiritual rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Times That Try | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...last scribbled words of Stephen Foster* as a salutation, Fulton Oursler, onetime professional magician, veteran magazine editor and top writer of mysteries and a bestselling religious book (The Greatest Story Ever Told), last week began a syndicated column which big city newspapers were playing like an important story. The point of Oursler's first weekly column was that the Christian spirit has temporal rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tales Out of Sunday School | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...doorstep"). If he doesn't take her off some place for some dancing and probably a couple of drinks, she can keep him on her campus, sit with him on a bench by the lake, or even take him to class. If she takes her "special" to Tupelo Point three times and he still hasn't proposed, she can, according to tradition, throw him into Lake Waban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...answer lies primarily in team speed. Cornell seldom lost much because the backfield speed usually got the ball back to the line of scrimmage even if there was no opening at that point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Big Red Best We'll Face'---Valpey | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

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