Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think it would be a splendid gesture to suggest to the member nations signing the North Atlantic Treaty that they be allowed to liquidate their war debts in similar fashion. These funds could thus become great pools of mutual friendship and good will, helping the generation about to cope with world problems to work harmoniously and understandingly together...
David Dubinsky, the subject of TIME'S Aug. 29 cover story, seems to me a first-rate example of telling the news, whenever possible, through people. Dubinsky and his union, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, also serve, I think, to illustrate the way TIME has kept its readers informed over the years on the significant news of scores of continuing stories...
Industrialist Reichhold (Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) added that it was "a shocking disgrace and all Detroit should be ashamed . . . Apparently if I don't support the musicians singlehanded, Detroiters don't care enough about their orchestra to make a move. I think Detroiters . . . are just sitting back waiting for me to underwrite the symphony by myself for the seventh season. But even if I could, I wouldn...
...Meat. Chapman was captured twice but escaped each time. His weight dropped from 170 Ibs. to 90. He learned to eat rat meat and think it tasty; once, he, even took in stride the information that he had just eaten roast Jap. He was frequently near death from malaria, and he left the jungle in August 1945, with a complexion the color of his jungle-green uniform. But before the month was over, he volunteered to go back on a military mission and was parachuted back into his "green hell" for another two months...
...village and moved to the capital, Carlos ran up against a lot of other matters, and almost all at once. There were such puzzling things as the political democracy of John Locke, the Marxian dialectic and the news (slightly belated) of the atomic bomb. Author North seems to think that it could happen that way almost anywhere in Central America. He tells how it happened with Carlos...