Word: seems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before the outbursts had subsided, Johnson plunged head first into more trouble. Johnson, who just can't seem to stay away from the press, or be discreet in front of it, let it be known that he had decided on the successor to retiring Army Secretary Kenneth Royall -though it is the President's prerogative to name his own official family. Johnson's choice was 58-year-old Curtis Ernest Calder, the $75,000-a-year board chairman of Manhattan's Electric Bond and Share Co. As soon as Calder could tidy up his affairs, probably...
...Japanese filed into the palace gardens to pay their respects to the Mikado. Since the Emperor has formally ceased to be a god and has begun to move freely about his realm, he has become even more popular with his people than in the old days. His subjects seem to prefer his humanity to his divinity; at baseball games (he recently attended his first-see cut), among workers, wherever he goes, they take inexplicable comfort from his invariable approving remark, "Ah so, ah so." Yet even in their homage of their constitutional monarch the people are confused...
...arms aid now would be a serious shock to direct Russian-American relations, which seem to be picking up slightly. Russia could probably find herself psychologically able to deal with a billion-and-a-half dollars worth of war material when it was controlled by one country 3000 miles, away; when distributed through a disjointed group of very conceivably irresponsible countries, 300 miles distant the guns and planes can be both inflammatory and an efficient block to negotiation. It is pretty shortsighted to entirely rule out possible negotiations designed to case Russian and American tension. If we deposit a huge...
Though the twins seem old, cold and aloof, one of them recently blew its top. Last Dec. 7, says Luyten, "the fainter of the two stars was seen to flare up suddenly to twelve times its normal brilliance and to subside again in less than 20 min utes, a phenomenon which, so far, is unique among stars . . . The atomic explosion . . . amounted to the equivalent of a billion atomic bombs of the Hiroshima type...
Each movement has its own special fascination. The scherzo, probably the finest ever written, is a study in titanic contrasts. One moment the whole orchestra is playing the rhythmic theme louder than would seem possible, and suddenly nothing remains but a rollicking melody for woodwind quartet. Some critics call the third movement too long. They could not be more wrong. After hearing Koussevitzky's interpretation, I could only wish that the movement was twice as long as it is. But Beethoven knew the dangers of satisfaction, and he achieved just the right length...