Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that rope end dangling there for?" Illingworth would say. "Sorry, sir," the boatswain would answer, sending Seaman Brown to cut the end off. One morning, from a porthole, Illingworth spied two members of the crew, arms loaded with rope ends, tying them here & there to prepare a sort of treasure hunt for him. When he appeared for inspection, he spotted the first. The boatswain solemnly dispatched Brown to cut it. "Why Brown?" barked Illingworth. "Send the man who tied it there while I was watching him a half hour ago." Telling this story, Illingworth last week bounded about his quarters...
...Treasury Secretary John Snyder liked Brazil and Brazil liked him. He had come to talk business in a country where U.S. investments of $611,000,000 are second only to Britain's. He had a chance to see, in a plant such as Volta Redonda (steel), the sort of thing for which the U.S. had put up Export-Import cash. When he talked, he talked straight. Brazilians...
Trujillo understood just how to deal with this sort of business. Yellow-eyed Julio Ortega Frier, his Washington Ambassador, broadcast that "3,000 Communist revolutionaries" were training in eastern Cuba, fixing to invade Trujilloland. Five days later he reported that 1,000 of them had already set sail in two landing barges and a corvette. But nothing happened...
...frequent lapses into the banalities of America's "tough" writers, Sartre's new novel is a rare and welcome plant in a period that almost completely lacks a balanced combination of emotional intensity and maturity in its writers. The author's obvious power in understanding character, together with a sort of revolted fascination for sordidness and degradation, make the book provocative and at the same time a little loathe-some. The moral twist at the end, which shows the most warped character to be the most responsible, is convincing, yet takes away nothing from the horror of contemplating these people...
...these bitter words the editors of the Episcopal weekly Living Church last week publicly undertook to "bow our head in shame for our own church." Their bitterness and shame were intensified because they had printed an editorial a few months before, taking Roman Catholics to task for the same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees -in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill...