Word: slanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while correspondents in turn severely criticize editors for not giving enough space to foreign reporting. "I do not know what happens to an American reporter who is assigned to foreign fields," says one editor. "Before very long his stories take on the same old mediocre handout-and sometimes propaganda-slant." Adds another editor: correspondents often "write like foreign ministers...
However, the Corporation's report said, "Dr. Furry's teaching is of high quality and has reflected no Communist slant, nor has he ever engaged in recruiting students for the Communist Party, or in attempting to influence their political thinking...
Time after time, the flyers circle the field on instruments and slant into cautious approaches to the landing runway. An auto-pilot steers them along the ILS (Instrument Landing System) beam. But while they are making their automatic approach, Rube and his copilot keep up a constant chatter on the radio. They sing out when they first spot the ground, report familiar landmarks, announce the first gleam of runway lights. And every word is recorded on the ground...
...show, Campaigning with Stevenson. Unlike A.F.L.'s Edwards, who swings a crusader's meat ax at "the big-business boys." Vandercook (who will be on ABC's payroll) expects to deliver a quiet "expository commentary'' without a heavy pro-labor slant. "He seemed in the liberal tradition we liked." said a C.I.O. man. "That was good enough...
...Perle Mesta, gadding about the Soviet Union, was full of nice things to say about her hosts. At a meeting of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow she was "pleasantly surprised to see so many women in politics," especially the "olive-skinned, slant-eyed, Oriental-looking women with long black braids." As for the Baku oilfields, they are "just terrific." Explained Perle (who inherited an oil fortune.): "They're larger than any I've ever seen in the United States ... It looks as though the oil is flowing freely...