Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stiletto work . . . [It] will not merely mean that many persons will suffer for acts that they did not commit, or for acts that were legal when committed, or for no acts at all. Far worse is the end result, which will be that critics, even of the mildest sort, will be frightened into silence . . ." Loyalty oaths for teachers are utterly useless, said Hutchins, "for teachers who are disloyal will certainly be dishonest; they will not shrink from a little perjury...
Some international crises get into the headlines and some, no less real, hang quietly and ominously in the air. One of the quiet sort is now building up. Until a few months ago Britain's recovery was one of the most hopeful signs in the world picture. In April, British exports to the U.S. dropped 38% below March, widening the famous "gap" between what Britain has to pay out for dollar imports and what she can sell for dollars...
...seven weeks, a U.N. Palestine Conciliation Commission had sat in Lausanne, Switzerland, trying to hammer out a final peace settlement between Israel and the Arabs. It had been a strange sort of conference, in which none of the disputants on one side would speak to anyone on the other. Under the circumstances, it was hardly surprising that the conference had made little or no progress...
...find out. The mysterious steroids from the glandular orchestra are apparently concerned with all the changes in the body's cells. "If you want to know about cancer," says Dobriner, "you must also know about old age, hypertension and degeneration." Thus, cancer research may discover, as a sort of byproduct, what makes people grow...
Concluded Critic Lejeune dolefully: "The sort of native industry that struggled up in the war years is no longer observable in Britain. Indications are that British films have had it; and that in so far as contributing a strong indigenous product to international art is concerned, our movies are darned near dead...