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Take Harry Truman, for instance. He has been waving a sturdy halbard at inflation since the voters first moved him into the White House. But it was in 1950 that he took his lustiest swipe by calling in Wilson, DiSalle, and a handful of others, and telling them to begin stabilizing. His blow thus administered, the threat of inflation emerged more menacing than ever...
When a high-ranking Roman Catholic prelate takes a scornful swipe at religious tolerance and storms at "benevolence towards Protestantism," as Spain's Cardinal Segura did last week (TIME, March 17), many U.S. temperatures go sailing. For whom or what does Cardinal Segura speak...
...Wyburn and Miss Westbury, two elderly pussies whose skill in exchanging tattle and insults is so practiced that it is sometimes hard to know which is speaking. When one has clawed the other a particularly deep swipe, she always follows up with the stinging antiseptic, e.g. "I do assure you, Millie, I never dreamt of hurting your feelings...
...secondary teacher, I take umbrage at Mr. Griswold's swipe at me and my fellows. He regards us as weak links in the educational chain, and wishes to teach us our subject matter. Humph! . . . We don't teach a few hours a week. We are in there every day all day long. Our nights are spent in preparing our classes and correcting papers (a practice that could be followed by most professors I know...
...Guardian, however, expanded our beliefs into a swipe at President Conant. It said "among those currently plagued by 'safe plodding' the CRIMSON editors may have had in mind . . . Dr. Conant, who in February came out for 'continual flow into the armed forces of those who reach 18 . . . to defend the free world'." It was wrong. We had in mind only what we said: that there was a regrettable trend towards the stifling of unpopular opinion. We had nothing to say about the President's statement, with which we largely agree, and which is politically very far from "safe plodding...