Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pure in Heart. Chile was already attracting U.S. investment. Last fortnight the Chilean government announced that U.S. firms were scheduled to put up $135 million for Chilean industries. Five million would be spent on a plant for manufacturing thread. Anaconda Copper had begun to spend a whopping $130 million-the largest single investment in Chile's history -on a new copper extraction process...
Chile was almost unique. Elsewhere in Latin America, the U.S. still faced the man-sized job of convincing yanqui-baiting nationalists that its heart was pure. Only when latinos came to look on the U.S. as their Good Partner as well as their Good Neighbor could Harry Truman's plan fully succeed...
...flatly denied the charges. Next day, by "pure coincidence," Washington declared John G. Florian, first secretary of the Hungarian embassy, persona non grata in Washington. Hungary, in retaliation, requested the recall of able U.S. Minister Selden Chapin, whom the Reds had accused of complicity with Mindszenty...
Neither unions nor management are happy under the present system of handling "essential" industries, where the constant threat of injunctions tends to nullify collective bargaining. Yet when strict adherence to the principles of pure collective bargaining imperils the national health or safety, open fights cannot be allowed...
...also a stubborn, highly independent thinker-a religious skeptic whose materialism is spiced with idealistic fervor, a radical in search of something to replace his lost faith in Communism. In The Yogi and the Commissar (TIME, June 4, 1945) Koestler tried to find a workable compromise between the pure, but passive life of the sage, and the earthy, but highly active existence of the political reformer. In his new book he stabs at a more ambitious project-"an inclusive theory of ethics, esthetics, and creative thinking...