Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictatorship, war and defeat. They have probably made greater progress toward democracy than the U.S. had a right to expect on V-E day; the many political-action groups which have sprung up all over West Germany, and the high turnout (nearly 80% of the eligible voters) at last summer's elections, indicate that at least some Germans have begun to see that the government is their concern. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous warmth toward America's representative which surprised and gratified Acheron and his advisers...
During last summer's parliamentary campaign, Belgium's Liberal party liberal promised a 25% income...
Apart from Herrin and the Sins, the most ambitious picture in the show was a summer landscape seething with happy nudes and entitled What I Believe. The painting did not make Cadmus' belief plain (unless he had meant to plump for nudism and close quarters), but it did at least indicate, said Cadmus, "that I don't really hate people...
...Morris Fishbein, long the big mouthpiece of the American Medical Association and self-appointed spokesman of organized U.S. medicine, finally found his forum cut from under him. Since his A.M.A. bosses clamped a tight muzzle on him last summer (TIME, June 20), it had not been much of a forum. This week, well aware that he was no longer welcome in it, Morris Fishbein resigned the editorship of the Journal and half a dozen other A.M.A. publications...
...summer day in 1539 a young friar named Marcos eased himself into a barber's chair in Mexico City, unburdened himself of the biggest piece of news his barber had heard all summer. As almost everybody in Mexico City knew, Fray Marcos de Niza had just returned from a four-month trip into the unexplored country to the north, in search of the legendary "Seven Cities of Antilia." What he said while his whiskers were coming off took his story dramatically out of the reach of expedition yarns. North of the Gila, he said, there was a fabulously wealthy...