Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convinced that most of the nation's important men, of all government branches read TIME; and if you could print a portion or all of the following, I could be sure that it would receive attention...
...Their presence gives latent support to Britain's most controversial colonial issue! On Nov. 23, an American in uniform was killed by rioting mobs in Calcutta. This tragedy is but a sample of the news that may be forthcoming from that unhappy country if we believe even a portion of the dire prediction of TIME'S London Bureau editors [TIME...
...become a bottleneck. Forty-six Army nurses arrived in San Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply stank.") But at least they got home. In West Coast ports, thousands of returned troops were stalled indefinitely. Housing facilities were so bad many of them had to be quartered in barracks ships in Puget Sound. There would be many disappointments...
Bevin's speech in the House of Commons showed how far Britain had moved from prewar nationalism and imperialism. Britain, said Britain's Foreign Secretary, was now ready to give up a portion of her sovereignty to such a world parliament, to merge the power of the British people and of the House of Commons "into the greater power" that could guard "the great repositories of science and destruction...
...Read? The quality of this extravagant coverage was something else. The painful Pearl Harbor story was confused at best. It was com plicated by contradiction, by varying recol lections and by bitter bouts of political swordplay. Most of the reporters strove to tell it coherently. But a sizable portion of the U.S. press did little to untangle the story for the man who knew only what he read in the papers...