Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough trouble in the world, there came a report last week of more ahead. Europe's and Asia's millions, living at best frugally, in some cases on starvation diets, are facing an even sterner winter than 1946-47. There is going to be less food to send them...
...they had been charged with racing each other in their cars; in August, they had got their cases postponed, twice. Now they failed to come to court. Declared the judge after a half-hour wait: if they didn't turn up next fortnight, he would really have to send...
...contributors (including Clifton Fadiman and John Hersey) had taken over to make sure that the infant '47 survived to become '48, when it would take ads. "People have been fired, ideas and departments shelved," they reported. "Any day now you will receive a '47 which we send out (for the first time) with confidence and some pride...
...imagination." Real reading is a process of remembering. "Books rarely if ever put anything into the mind of the reader which is not already there. The primary effect of reading is awakening, not informing. . . Books startle the mind into closer and more vivid contact with its own culture, or send it adventuring into strange places. . . . Unless in some way or at some time words, sentences, or books explode thus beneficently and creatively, not only revealing life but showing us how to live, reading is a waste of time...
Judged by assurances at San Francisco that the veto was really a last resort, Parodi had gone rather far. The Russians had proposed to send a U.N. mission to Indonesia to see what was going on between the Indonesians and the Dutch. A majority was agreeable. The French vetoed it because they feared a precedent which might some day lead to similar missions into France's own troubled colonial world. The French seemed to be helping to establish another precedent: that the veto could be used for almost anything, including weak nerves...