Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former position and seeking a quick way out. Larry is a teacher who was trying to mind his own business. When one of his students decided upon the "hard and lonely road" of a non-registrant, we indeed "hustled to his aid," but with no idea that giving moral support and comfort to him constituted a violation of the law. Had we known that it might be so interpreted, we would doubtless have done the same thing anyway ... But the point is that there was no deliberate violation for the sake of martyrdom or anything else...
...their acreage by one-fourth-though the Department of Agriculture insists that farmers are growing almost as many spuds, on less land, by planting the rows a little closer together and piling on the DDT and fertilizer. Aroostookians had themselves persuaded Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan to cut the support price from 90% to 60%, they say. But the House has put it back up to 90%. The big potato grab wasn't over...
...British prices so high? At least partly because British industry helps support Labor's elaborate welfare state. But another big reason is British industry itself, which grew inefficient and complacent long before Labor came to power...
...Communists are digging quietly with shovels, instead of blasting with dynamite." The men with the shovels are mostly Chinese; for the past 20 years they have had a monopoly on Communism among the easygoing Siamese. The government gave the Siamese Communist party legal status in 1946 (to win Russian support for its bid for U.N. membership), but the Reds continue to work entirely underground; when known Chinese Communists are caught, they are deported. Siam's 30,000 Communist party members have no real leader, but the man most frequently tagged as their boss is slender, ferret-faced...
...Missionary. Pope concluded that many Africans do not expect much help from the missions on the road to equality. "In fact, they often look upon the missions as in the camp of the opposition, due to the white control of the mission program and arrangements whereby governments support mission schools...