Word: sightedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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take the question of aid to Tito. There are a great many short-range, short-sighted arguments for giving aid to Yugoslavia--devilishly attractive arguments, the kind of arguments to which one can so easily say: "150 million Americans and the State Department can't be wrong." I believe they...
Yams & Couplings. There were even indications and promises of a good future. In such a commonplace as a yam, science was finding new hope for the ill (see MEDICINE). There were also new comforts to living. There was a 24-lb. sewing machine on the market which not only could...
These are the days that try men's souls; the petty, perfunctory academic hurdles loom large before one's eyes. The short-sighted will feel oppressed. A flight to contemplation of the eternal grand, indifferent order of things is needed to counteract this obsession with the ephemeral. Many have turned...
Then Van Zandt sighted squarely in on the long-cigar-shaped silhouette of Con-solidated's six-engined B-36, backbone of the Air Force's strategic bombing force. Since Louis Johnson sank the Navy's supercarrier six weeks ago (TIME, May 2), and with it the...
A grey Ford whipped along the back-country gravel roads, stirring up a trail of dust. Braking to a stop alongside a flat field, the car's slight and sunburned driver sighted down mile-long rows of tiny green shoots, planted the week before. "Ain't that beautiful...