Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protesting against the conservative slant of the American press, Nathan Robertson, Washington correspondent of PM, told a joint meeting of the Harvard Liberal Union, Post War Council and Radcliffe League for Democracy last night that economic and political decisions made in the next few months would be critical, and that "unless we can face these issues better than most of our American papers have, we're in for a lot of trouble...
...second Broadway show, as in her first (One Touch of Venus), jet-haired, slant-eyed Sono Osato catches and keeps the spotlight. She has personality and piquant looks as well as nimble feet...
Mitsuye Endo is a loyal U.S. citizen, born 24 years ago in Sacramento. Her eyes happen to slant upward because her ancestors were Japanese. In 1942, when the U.S. Army uprooted 110,000 people of Japanese blood from their truck gardens and berry patches along the West Coast, Mitsuye Endo landed in a War Relocation center at Topaz, Utah...
There were other reminders of Japanese rule. Young men were off fighting as guerrillas. There were very young children, now, whose eyes had a marked and curious slant. Stories of Jap cruelty were told and retold: of the nuns forced at bayonet point to undress and be photographed. And in many a town, signs like "Banzai Restaurant" were visible through the hastily-slapped-on coats of fresh paint...
Dragon Seed (M.G.M.) is a kind of slant-eyed North Star (TIME, Nov. 8). A two-and-a-half-hour picturization of Pearl Buck's best-selling novel (TIME, Jan. 26, 1942) about China at war. Often awkward and pretentious, it nevertheless has moments of moral and dramatic grandeur...