Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Endearment. In Lexington, Ky., a wife who wanted a divorce because her husband called her a battle-ax was rebuked by the judge. Said he: "Anyone . . . who is married . . . knows that battle-ax is merely a term of affection...
...independent people, if we still are, the shorter the occupation term is, the happier we are. Fortunately, General MacArthur favors an early withdrawal of occupation troops to the disheartening of Miss Yoko's un-Japanese feeling...
Next evening, at a White House gathering for congressional leaders, Secretary Marshall began his job of reporting to the U.S. The gist of it: though the Moscow deadlock was a short-term diplomatic failure, it held the promise of becoming a long-term political success...
...report's most important conclusion is that the U.S., for the first time, is close to having the tools, workers and know-how to nil the basic needs of its population. This hopeful prospect is not a prediction. It is a statistical projection based on normal long-term trends of U.S. growth-in population, wealth, consumption, demand, spending, etc., and the assumption that the U.S. will not be plunged into a catastrophic depression...
Shakespeare was a close second to George Bernard Shaw in a poll taken by the VTW among undergraduates last term to determine what kind of drama students here wanted. The Workshop produced Shaw's "Saint Joan" last term, and the coming production is the answer to the second request...