Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those sponsored by the West and likely to be blackballed by Russia: Trans-Jordan (still tied to British apron strings), Eire (the anti-Communist slant even exceeds the anti-British) and Siam (still technically at war with France...
Kremlin Service. Into GHQ Palgunov's overseas staff pours a daily torrent: full texts of speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, Government handouts, technical and business reports, verbatim pickups from A.P., U.P., the New York Times. They need not bother to slant their stuff; Moscow takes care of that. But neither Moscow's " big-circulation tour-page dailies, like Pravda and Izvestia, nor any other Soviet paper prints much more foreign news than many small-town U.S. dailies...
Most interesting slant on the economic merry-go-round came from the Ofgant Chevrolet Company. Unable to share Truman's pessimism, Ofgant held that with the death of OPA, automobile production would rise and there was hope for increased sales soon...
...latest, The United States Moves across the Pacific, was published last week (Harper, $2), has no religious slant...
...only the laws but the most approved methods ... of finding the loopholes. . . . If he is to be a doctor, he should not only learn medicine but how to milk the largest fees. . . . If an engineer, how to construct with the cheapest of materials. . . . If a journalist, how-to slant, alter, lie. . . . In the securities field . . . the different methods of watering stocks and duping the suckers...