Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb talk is mere "sentiment," an outgrowth of political prudery that refuses to face the facts of politics. In This Week Cartoonist Ray Helle neatly ticked it off with this sentiment: two parrots are sitting on a perch; behind them is a cat; says one parrot to the other, "Stop worrying about the atom bomb and keep your...
...Western nations had scores of possible answers to the Czech move. Instead of getting France to join last week in the kind of protest note that helped Hitler to power, France might have been induced to stop stalling on the question of Western German industry. Two U.S. Army divisions to Greece-with orders to clean up that mess-might have convinced the Italians that the U.S. was a friend worth having. People who live in threatened nations (and who doesn't?) need more than food; they need to have some assurance that the U.S. intends to win the peace...
...picture will return to the classrooms. This is not merely a matter of a picture, but a conception of national life." The newspaper Svobodne Slovo (meaning "Free World") was retitled Nova Politika ("New Politics"). Foreign publications (including TIME & LIFE) were banned. The Ministry of Information instructed foreign correspondents to stop "malicious distortion of news." When asked whether the Ministry was to be the only judge of what constitutes distortion, a spokesman replied with genuine wonder: "Who else...
...Hush (Clara Bow) and Miss Hush (Martha Graham) changed his thinking. After the Walking Man, he might try a "Walking Lady, a Baby Hush, or a Burping Baby." The only trouble is "those other quiz shows that glommed on to the idea." If the rivals don't stop, they may spoil the whole thing...
...Professor spoke of Alsop's report on Prague, which he claims was written after a week-end stop-over in the country, claiming that report of biased. But now that two methods of observation have been put to the test, we can check the scores. A. Y. Davis...