Word: rationalizing
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...embarrassed natives of Lake Placid, N.Y. explained that the weather was really unusual. With 130 crack skiers on hand last week to compete in the Fédération Internationale de Ski world championships, there just wasn't any snow. Ice-crushing machines crunched away to give...
...soldier may go to church (at Christmas quite a few slipped into Belgrade churches and hid in dark corners), nor may teachers or government workers, except at the risk of losing job and ration card. In the past five years the Communist regime has killed one Catholic bishop and imprisoned two. It has killed 350 to 400 priests and imprisoned an equal number...
...beards, poets, politicians, schoolteachers and generals, the Roman god Mars and France's own Marianne, her bronze face pushed in. Like many more famous works of art, they had been patiently salvaged from Germany after the war by France's conscientious Commission de Récupération Artistique, brought back to Paris, and stored...
...Hubbard's dog gets his welfare-state ration...
...them!") or long-nosed, war-born Mr. Chad ("Wot, no bacon & eggs?"). The free-enterprise champion was Mr. Cube, a personable lump of sugar invented by a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman and psychological warfare expert named Roy Hudson. On millions of sugar cartons, thousands of posters, pamphlets and ration-book covers, Mr. Cube's expressive face and thin, agile limbs have helped launch slogans like "You'll get the lump from Tate, but State will give you the hump." A "Memo from Mr. Cube," hitting state controls, went to 5,000,000 voters...