Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since junketing Congressmen began making side trips to Spain last autumn, the news from Madrid has sounded as though they had made their pilgrimages across the Pyrenees just to give Dictator Francisco Franco a kindly pat on the back. Most spoke enthusiastically both of a big U.S. loan to the Spaniards and of full U.S. recognition of Franco's Fascist government. But last week three traveling members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee bluntly suggested that the U.S. should not be judged exclusively by the sweet talk of its traveling politicos...
...Naples house appealed to venerable Senator Benedetto Croce, Italy's foremost philosopher, to block the bill "so that they too might have a prosperous holy year." Letters against the bill poured in on Senator Merlin, who had herself toured Rome's brothels to collect ammunition for her side...
...symbol not only of the past but of our reconciliation . . ." Judge Newton Thompson bluntly spoke for South Africans of British descent: "If you want our country to flourish and be happy, then you must take us with you, not as your subordinates . . . but as your equals at your side...
...youngest permanent conductor of a major U.S. symphony orchestra. Since September, he has also been one of the busiest. Last month, in addition to rehearsing long hours with his new orchestra, he composed a Concerto for Toys and Orchestra, then flew to New York and recorded it. On the side, he found time to inaugurate a competition in composition and another in instrument playing for pupils in the Dallas public schools. And one night, with visiting Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham on the podium, he sat down at the piano and gave a workmanlike performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto...
...Road Back. McKeown's was an old-fashioned kind of evangelical attack, but one from which the army has never wavered. From its years of experience on the seamy side of life, the army thinks that it knows as much about drunkenness as any other organization. It maintains that evangelism can reach into depths of degradation which psychiatry cannot touch. Says Captain Tom Crocker, onetime alcoholic and drug addict who is now in command of the army's famed Harbor Light corps in Chicago: "Overcoming drunkenness is a matter of prayer from beginning...