Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Permission or refusal to reprint from TIME is not always easy to give. For example, requests from scores of TIME readers who want to startle their friends with replicas of themselves on TIME'S cover pose a problem because, the trademark laws of the U.S. being what they are, we have to refuse permission for reproductions of TIME'S format and take action against unauthorized uses of it. One such was the move of an enterprising politician running for New York State assemblyman whose campaign literature featured a brochure of himself on TIME'S cover, which...
...staunch Republican, I wish to view with alarm this sweetness and light campaign of Dewey and Warren to unify the nation . . If, as we believe, Dewey wins the election, he will doubtless pose as the representative of a united nation, and those who criticize and those who attack his policies will be divisive forces, seeking to undermine the united efforts of the nation. Is this not authoritarianism wearing the garb of a monk and sweetly-saying Pax Vobiscum! . . . JAMES L. ROHRBAUGH Pastor First United Presbyterian Church Seattle, Wash...
...case hung on the story told by slick-haired Reporter Staktopoulos, 36-year-old stringer for Reuters news agency. A graduate of Communist training schools, he had been ordered to renounce the party publicly two years ago, and pose as a reformed Red. On the night of May 8, under party orders, he said, he took Polk to a waterfront restaurant in Salonika, to wait for a dory that would start the correspondent on his journey to see Guerrilla Chieftain Markos Vafiades...
...mixture of paste and paper pulp), they ranged from life-size figures to tiny dolls. Proof of his brilliance lay in the fact that the tiny ones, of which he did hundreds, had a monumental quality. With their archaic smiles, compactness and classic grace of pose, they looked like quick sketches for heroic statues. But that was not Nadelman's notion in modeling them : he had hoped to take sculpture out of the park and put it on the mantel. Such little figures as his, he reasoned, could be reproduced for thousands to buy and enjoy at home...
Washington Monument. Said Biographer Freeman, in Richmond, where he is at work on Volume III: "Washington did not himself climb up on a marble pedestal, strike a pose and stay there. What we're goin' to do, please God, is to make him a human bein'. The great big thing stamped across that man is character...