Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mission of mercy") against Hyderabad, whose predominantly Hindu population was ruled by a stubborn Moslem Nizam. The would-be war correspondents sped 180 miles toward the front, found that the war was over by the time they got there. All in all, it had been one of the shortest, happiest wars ever seen. Cabled Lubar...
...starting out very modestly on the shortest possible shoestring," explained General Manager John T. McManus, former TIME and PM writer and leftish ex-president of the New York local of the American Newspaper Guild. He was mum on who supplied the shoestring. Top editors will be British-born Cedric Belfrage, onetime cinema critic for the London Daily Express, and James Aronson, New York newsman. Among the contributors: Author Louis Adamic, Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the Churchman; Roger (American Past) Butterfield, Sportwriter John Lardner and his screenwriter brother Ring Jr. (one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"); Max Werner...
According to these statistics, the most long-lived specialists are pathologists. Shortest (at nine-tenths of the general practitioners' rate): dermatologists, who have a high death rate from cancer and leukemia, possibly the result of continual exposure to X rays. Specialists in tuberculosis also have a bad rate, probably because they often start off with the disease...
...moved home from the hospital, "notably improved," 17 days after his shooting by a would-be assassin. But he was going to keep right on resting in private for a while. He asked everybody "not to ask to visit me or to talk to me even for the shortest periods of time...
...shortest and best of the essays is by Roman Catholic Author Edward Ingram Watkin. The traditional Catholic criteria for determining when and whether a war is "just," says he, are meaningless under modern conditions. Only a nation's top leaders could possibly know enough of the facts to decide. But "the justice of the cause is not the sole criterion of justifiable war .'.. There is another test whose application is henceforth simple and plain: even a just war must not be waged by immoral means. Under modern conditions, however, war can be waged only by such aerial...