Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not spring from a sense of security, but from an overwhelming knowledge of insecurity. Britain's R. H. S. Grossman, a leader of the dissident Laborites, put it thus: "Europe has become a relatively unimportant place . . . where the atom bombs meant to fall on America will fall short on Britain. . . . This country is now indefensible in a war between Russia and America. If we join Russia against America we shall be starved out in three weeks. If we join the Americans against Russia, we are a little island 3,000 miles from our ally. . . . The only thing...
...hundreds of thousands more ponds of fish than provided by the Five-Year Plan. This was part of a full-blast Soviet campaign to make workers and farmers meet their 1947 quotas ahead of time, "to honor the 30th anniversary of the Great October [Revolution]." For Russia was desperately short of consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best of a bad spot, the Soviet Government played on the people's acute wants to discredit the rich U.S. Recently, the Soviet press reported that the U.S. was dumping potatoes to keep prices up, and the magazine Krokodil...
...Confiscate Anything." A short walk beyond, Housewife Yu Chi-ping is sweeping debris from the dark cliffside cave in which her family lives. The table, two chairs, and a chest are gone, Yu laments. The water jar and crockery are smashed. There comes to mind the Communist high command's directive before the Communists withdrew: "To keep our troops fit... confiscate anything. . . . For firewood we shall use doors, windows, furniture. . . . Cooking vessels must be carried away. What can't be destroyed must be buried. . . . We must sacrifice for our sacred land of democracy and our president...
From that day, Mark's are the short & simple annals of success. When A.T. & T. got out of radio, Mark went with young NBC, quickly became a vice president. "I never could understand," he says, "why they didn't make me president." When the Blue struck out for itself, Mark made the grade. "Now," he grins, "I sit back and let the boys run the show...
...final advantage of the field is that there are no generals, specials, or theses to worry about. Honors are granted strictly on the quality of work turned out in the field, which also adds to the competition for grades. In short, if you have a sincere interest in chemistry, you can't go wrong; but he wary if you are a more dilettante...