Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommy was playing on the lawn. "That's my Ronnie," cried Anna Thompson. She was positive, and prepared to prove it. "My Ronnie had webbed toes," she said. An attendant removed a shoe and sock; the toes of Tommy's right foot were webbed. She smiled triumphantly. "The other was the same!" she said, and, sure enough, the toes on Tommy's left foot also were webbed. Tommy had blue eyes, and his ears lay flat, like Ronnie...
...reason for most human ills. "He began," one writer said, "tracking down scientific clues like a detective on the trail of a mass murderer." In World War II an Orr survey provided the basis for British food rationing. He never stopped lecturing people on eating the right kind of food; once he complained that he could get farmers interested in feeding their animals properly "but I canna get them interested in the food of their ain bairns, far less in the bairns of ither folks...
...whom he had tried so hard to bring peace. Earlier this year, as the Greek army launched its summer offensive, Van Fleet had predicted that Greece's Red guerrillas would be wiped out before year's end (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week his prophecy was proved right. From a secret radio station in Communist Rumania, Greece's Communist guerrilla leaders announced that they had had enough. Military operations, said the radio, would cease forthwith, "to avoid total destruction of Greece...
...Explained one of his lieutenants: "The Old Man's dead against showing too much target for them to attack us. Instead, he's set on seeking out the cracks in their armor and probing home his steel wherever he can penetrate." In accordance with their platform, The Right Road for Britain (which has sold 2½ million copies since it was published last summer-TIME, Aug. 1), the Tory leaders called for a reduction of taxes and government spending, promised they would keep Labor's social services but manage them less wastefully, would halt but not abolish...
...shotgun wadding that lodged in his eye while he was shooting wild fowl in Italy. Doctors gave him a short time to live. Feeling that he could not finish the novel "of large proportions" that he had been working on for years, he started writing a new one, went right on with it after throwing off his illness. The 300-page book's subject: World War II. Its title: still unchosen...