Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black Day." As the news reached Europe, the Communist press broke out in jubilant headlines. Pro-U.S. papers were badly shaken. Wrote Rome's Il Tempo: "Whatever happens in the Senate, the harm has been done . . . Europe will live in perpetual fear that from one moment to the next America will ship her oars...
...June to mid-July the political solar plexus of the U.S. will be Philadelphia. There, in drafty, flag-draped Convention Hall, a thousand-odd sweating delegates from both major parties* will meet to choose their candidates for the presidency. Millions of U.S. citizens will follow every play in the press, over the radio and on their television screens. Few will understand exactly what is going on. What is the convention system and how does it operate...
Three weeks ago, a prosperous Salisbury, Mo. dentist, Dr. H. H. Brummall, wrote to his fellow Missourian Harry Truman, suggesting that he withdraw from the presidential race. The reply, which was released to the press last week, was not only indicative of the state of the President's mind but also characteristic...
...buttonholing sources. Then they meet to decide who writes the next column, or whether they should do it jointly. Their contacts are largely second-level Government men like Harvardman Charles ("Chip") Bohlen and ECA's Dick Bissell, an old Grottie of Joe's class. The Alsops think press conferences a waste of time, go to Harry Truman's only a couple of times a year, just "to see what the President looks like...
...muggy afternoon last week, the 15 boys and 25 girls (spelling is a literal-minded business) clustered around microphones in the National Press Club for the finals. After a few rounds of easy ones, the spellers began to trip. Escutcheon, toboggan, chrysalis, mollify, appurtenant, desecrate, diaphanous, discernible, penitentiary . . . (The master of ceremonies tried to soothe the kids who flubbed: "Too bad, Sara, you stayed up there real long.") Troche, scintilla, poliomyelitis, calyx, cirrus, piccalilli, lachrymose, geodesy, insipid . . . ("That's all right, Martin. I always spell 'insipid' with a 'c,' too.") Syllabus, addendum, flaccid, desiccate, accordion...