Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real mystery was still not solved. Why should anyone bother to forge a piddling 254 ballots in overwhelmingly Democratic Bourbon County? Why should brilliant Ed Prichard, a man with a future, try to pull a clumsy fix that would give pause to the lowliest ward heeler...
This confusion arose from some characteristics of 20th Century man: his materialism, his clumsiness in dealing with spiritual ideas, and his bitter and understandable disappointment at the poverty that still surrounds him in spite of the technological promise of plenty...
...eyed mayor, Gaston Méric. Davis had trouble understanding Méric's Catalan dialect, and Méric had trouble understanding Davis' French; but ideas percolated back & forth. Said the mayor, after Davis had gone: "I felt sure he was a nut. I'm still not sure he isn't. But maybe that's what we need to have peace...
From Berlin, a TIME Corespondent cabled: "Like a swain who cannot bring himself to forget the girl who jilted him, the Russians are still unable to abandon completely the idea of blockading Berlin. Theoretically, rail, road and water traffic between West Germany and Berlin have been open for two months. In fact, hardly a week has gone by since the formal lifting of the blockade without Russian chicanery arbitrarily disrupting services somewhere along the line...
Children's Chance. Last week, though school was closed for the summer, Principal Schwertz was still busy in his office, working on his latest scheme. He wanted Beauregard to be the first U.S. grammar school to have its own radio station, to give the children a chance to broadcast their own historical dramas, music, and student forums...