Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of the U.S. tells his people that he is going to spend the next four years trying to reach an understanding, and that there are Soviet leaders who are anxious for that understanding (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), confusion and division will result, and these in turn will breed phenomena such as Garry Davis...
...Turn. With its boom, the U.S. had high prices. Yet the notable event of the year was not that prices had scooted up to the highest peak of the postwar boom-as they had in midsummer-but that by autumn they had started to come down. U.S. businessmen who had been preaching to the world that production-and not rationing and controls-was the cure for inflation had finally shown the preaching to have the ring of economic gospel. The buyers' market swept in with old-fashioned price-cutting competition...
Sanctioned by the USEASA, the race will be run over a course to be determined by snow conditions. Hannes Schneider, who developed the snowpile turn, will be course setter...
...Negro MP sprawled on a pile of rubble wistfully playing his harmonica for an Italian urchin. He falls asleep, and the boy steals his shoes. Waking, the MP chases the child to its bombed-out home, where, confronted by the sight of utter poverty and despair, he can only turn and flee back to the city, leaving his shoes and his anger behind in the ruins...
Each year the numerous lost-and-found depots around the University turn their pockets inside-out, and give unclaimed items to charity. The accumulation of uncalled-for articles is considerable--and doubly uncalled-for, since much of the yearly harvest can be ascribed to the over-abundance of collection offices. The student who has lost something hardly knows where to go to find...