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Word: thinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Phil Murray had tried every other kind of cure, including just trying not to think about it. He had warned left-wing leaders to quit acting like Communists or get out. But the trouble still persisted. Party-liners continued to defy him. There was nothing left to do but use the knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Big Knife | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...newsmen were waiting when the happy couple entered the living room. Said Vice President Alben Barkley: "The President of the Senate yields to the Senator, shall we say, from Missouri." Said Mrs. Jane Hadley, smiling: "I think it is no surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: The Veep Yields | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...human welfare. In Herbert Lehman's dictionary, welfare meant "condition of health, happiness, prosperity." What was wrong with that? "This is the bogyman they have set up which is supposed to frighten the wits out of us." Did Dulles think of himself as a Paul Revere spreading the alarm? Scoffed Lehman: Dulles is "galloping backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Something New | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...denounced the practice of Jesuits studying things that are not related to religion: "I think everyone knows there is something wrong with a priest who does not teach theology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feeney Protests Present State of Society of Jesus | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...think that Hollywood has gone to pot since the war, send an acquaintance to the Kenmore to see the two revivals now on display there. Do not go yourself. Your friend will return singing the praises of current productions, for the pair of films are respectively mediocre and ghastly...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

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