Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, in its impetuous desire to display satirical muscles, neglected to note McCoy's adroit use of symbolism, the uncanny fluency and nearness of his dialogue, and the influence (for good or bad) of Henry Miller upon his writing. I predict that TIME will shortly be forced to eat the cynicism and satire that was so flippantly fired from the side of its mouth...
Thirteen states prohibit the union shop.* But the Taft-Hartley law does not bar it, if a majority of employees vote for it. Thus union leaders, in cases involving interstate commerce, have been able to use the federal labor law as a safe refuge from more stringent state laws...
...most of his 67 years, Scottish Nutritionist Orr has been trying to get more food to more stomachs. As chief of FAO since 1945, he has pleaded for governments to stop building armaments and use their money to halt erosion. He also demanded an all-powerful food board to divide available surpluses among the world's havenots. But no great nation has been willing to surrender such power...
...expect to get something for nothing." In that belief, he had given them a completely realistic budget. Though "we have stopped the abrupt decline in our exchange reserves," said he, and "our domestic economy has continued to boom . . . the general policy for this year should be to use our surplus [$670 million] to reduce our debt and thereby to fight inflation . . ." The nation should get set for an economic slump, and be ready for an international emergency. "A substantial surplus will help to keep our powder...
...individualism is to be saved, the attack on waste must be made from the opposite standpoint. The student must be made to want to use what Harvard offers, to know and dislike the waste before he graduates--the time when many men do finally understand and oppose it. The attack on waste must embrace a new willingness to change the archaie and the inadequate, and it must incorporate a new spirit of central responsibility for the methods and character of Harvard education...