Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brilliant Nikolai Bukharin, former head of the Third International, said: "When you ask yourself, 'If you must die, what are you dying for?' an absolutely black vacuity suddenly rises before you with startling vividness. There was nothing to die for if one wanted to die unrepented. And . . . everything positive that glistens in the Soviet Union acquires new dimensions in a man's mind...
...Bright Sweater. Cheke's pamphlet turns around the ordeals of Mr. John Bull, the Third Secretary to Sir Henry Sealingwax, ambassador to mythical Mauretania. To the old ambassadors John Bull is typical of Britain's new crop of appointees now at their first posts abroad. Long on economics, finance and social problems, often with brilliant war records, they are, by such standards as Cheke's, still social roughnecks...
Grooming John Bull for his first day in Mauretania, Cheke warns him to expect callers and adds, "the president of the Chamber of Commerce . . . would resent being received by a young man wearing ... a bright green pullover." And Third Secretary Bull had best adjust to being familiarly called "John" by embassy colleagues; "after a day or two ... he may return this vulgar compliment...
...shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop it once was. When the third anniversary of Perón's popular election fell last week, it became equally clear that Perón's labor prop was also slipping...
...Post, with one-third of its 225,000 circulation in rural areas, thought that Partridge's trick, even for city-bred readers, was worth an eight-column. Page One headline: OKLAHOMA'S PRISONER-COW FREED FROM SILO. But Managing Editor Alexis McKinney had some misgivings: "I see trouble ahead. Every farmer will be yelling, 'Send us Partridge...