Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Current London jargon divides crisis solutions into "short-term," "middle-term" and "long-term." The finance ministers' meeting sought results in only the first two categories. The short-term program called for a ?60 to ?100 million cut in imports by the rest of the Commonwealth (excluding Canada) from the dollar area. The middle-term scheme was a new pattern of trade and production so that the sterling area could produce more of the supplies now being imported for dollars. What Whitehall calls "the multilateral stuff" (longterm) will be left for further talks in Washington this September...
...prospect of even a short sojourn in Lercara Friddi was enough to make an active man short-tempered. Lucky roughed up photographers at the entrance to his apartment building. Said he: "In the States I know what I can do and what I can't. Over here it's different. They got laws I don't know anything about...
...situation in Eastern Europe is "both wider and deeper than the question of religious liberty." These countries, said, are going through a total social, economic, and political transformation, and the churches "could not serve as a shelter for those who wish to retreat to the old social order." In short, "the judgment of God lies upon the churches for having failed to meet the needs of the broad masses of people throughout the world...
Quartet. An unhackneyed, British-made foursome of Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...
...16th Century dandy's), or their ends were wrapped around a smart walking cane or twined in & out of the waist belt. At night, of course, the beard could serve as an extra blanket or could be screwed into a portable press for an overnight permanent. In short, as bearded Burl Ives remarks on the jacket of Beards: "Every man should try one. They grow...