Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former subjects, the King sent a touching message. "I pray that every blessing may be with you today and in the future," said His Majesty. "God Save the King" sang Anne Maggie Crowley, a Dublin newsvendor, as she elbowed her way through the crowds, carrying a scribbled poster: "King George recognizes Republic!" Shouts of "Good Old George" mingled with those of "Up the Republic!" Mused a smiling Dublin policeman: "Times have changed. If that auld one had sung 'God Save the King' a few years ago, she would have finished up in the Liffey...
...lacking cash (so they cannily said), the villagers threatened to pay their taxes in potatoes. Indignantly the local government posted notices that it would not receive potatoes. Sniffing a story, a newspaperman nosed in from nearby Limoges. As he stopped to photograph the potato notices he saw another poster: "Workers Wanted for the Uranium Fields...
...matter of hard fact, both Osorio and Gálvez probably preferred hard-boiled Somoza to "Spiritual Socialist" Arévalo. But both were enjoying governmental honeymoons ("Glory to God in Heaven and Gálvez in Honduras!" burbled a Tegucigalpa poster), and both were playing it cagey. They proclaimed their respective countries friendly to Guatemala "as to all nations," pleaded ignorance of any plans to meet Arévalo, and let it go at that...
...outside visitor, the most interesting class is that on Communism. Beneath a crucifix on the classroom wall hang two poster-size diagrams of the Soviet state organization. With the classics of Communism before them (as well as Cominform publications and books from Moscow), the young priests gather around a big table to discuss, with dialectical zeal, the fine points of Marxism. Explains their instructor, former philosophy professor Canon Don Emilio Benavent...
...commission also decided to fight in the French cantonal elections (March 20 and 27) on a peace platform. Hundreds of thousands of election posters have been shipped out, to be plastered on walls all over France. Say the posters: "Marshall-ized France has been dragged into a costly, dangerous and criminal policy of preparation for war." And, in the poster's largest lettering: "VOTE FOR PEACE...