Word: stateser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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". . . He wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck." . . . Even before Maine's catastrophic forest fires of 1947, Maine, with most other...
Your report of the ambassadorial appointment of Vice Admiral Kirk states that he "ran the Navy's show in the invasion of Sicily" [TIME, May 2]. In this operation Admiral Kirk commanded one of the Task Forces under the command of Admiral H. K. Hewitt, U.S.N. Admiral Kirk was...
The Republicans' Arthur Vandenberg agreed. "I have never felt," he said, "that extending ambassadorial recognition was in any sense an approval by the United States of the governments of the countries to which it was extended. If that were the case, there are about a half-dozen embassies I...
In New Orleans, doctors had told the couple that their twin babies had been born blind. Andrew Hoffmann, telephone repairman, and his wife, Beverly, did not give up hope. They chartered a plane to New York to see if specialists could cure their sons (TIME, May 2). The U.S. followed...
A Lot of People. Brazil's 48 million people are the descendants of Portuguese sugar fazendeiros, African slaves, savage Indians and immigrants from around the world. They include the hard-riding gaúchos of the temperate Rio Grande do Sul pampas; the sickly Indian rubber-gatherers of the...