Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election was the greatest possible tribute to the secret ballot, which is the heart of democracy. It is true that the vote was low;* there was considerable evidence that many had voted reluctantly. But a reluctant vote counts just as much as an enthusiastic one. The election was a decision, perhaps some day to be amended (as democracy can and does amend its choices), but an affirmative decision nevertheless...
...candidates themselves grinned from poster portraits, but never in the flesh. President Truman was in Missouri, out of TV range, and Governor Dewey's Manhattan suite was placed off limits by the secret service men who had come up from Washington to guard the next President. As interviewees, that left Candidate Henry Wallace (who looked bitter and pompous), Candidate Norman Thomas (chipper and witty) and major & minor party officials...
Cruel Dissonants. First the audience was jolted upright by an ugly, brutal blast of brass. Under it, whispers stirred in the orchestra, disjointed motifs fluttered from strings to woodwinds, like secret, anxious conversations. The survivor began his tale, in the tense half-spoken, half-sung style called Sprechstimme. The harmonies grew more cruelly dissonant. The chorus swelled to one terrible crescendo. Then, in less than ten minutes from the first blast, it was all over. While his audience was still thinking it over, Conductor Kurt Frederick played it through again, to give it another chance. This time, the audience seemed...
...Olympics, Maestro Mariles was easily the best horseman of the prize-winning Mexicans. In Manhattan last week, he won the West Point Challenge Trophy on his pet 18-year-old jumper, Resorte. He rode a horse like a champion -without seeming to work at it. The big secret of Mexican riding is controlling the horse's movements almost entirely through the rider's legs-not his hands. Says Mariles: "The motor of the horse is in back, not in front. A horse is not an automobile; you don't drive him by his nose...
...market's companies, all privately owned, keep their net earnings secret, but last year, with a boost in sales because of high meat prices, they had an estimated gross of more than $85 million, up 20% over prewar. Last month, when meat prices began falling, fish sales held up and in some cases even increased. Fishmen decided that "people had to eat so much of our stuff during the war that they finally got fond of it. It's the only food that hasn't been fouled up by being vitaminized, tenderized or homogenized." This year...