Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comply with certain fixed regulations in those cases where facilities are to be established on lands pertaining to the Department of Interior.... The National Park Service officials are very definitely opposed to permitting structures of any type to be erected at such places as will be open to view and materially alter the natural appearance of the reservation...
...taken great pride in their Army. Trained by a French mission, it had thrashed Bolivia (pop. about 3,000,000) in the bloody three-year Chaco war beginning in 1932 had come home to barracks a triumphant fighting force. But by this week some Paraguayans were taking a different view of their soldiers: they were eating the country out of house & home...
...finally voiced this view was Paraguay's round-faced, Dutch-descended Juan Plate, Minister of Finance. Last week, fed up, Juan. Plate resigned, gave his reasons in an angry document addressed to President Higinio Morinigo. A copy got out to Montevideo, and Dutchman Plate's blast against the Army be came public property...
...with an eyewitness description of atom-bombed Hiroshima from its onetime Tokyo office manager, Honolulu-born Leslie Nakashima, who went there to look up his mother. Wrote he: "I was dumfounded at the destruction before me. The center of the city . . . was razed and there was a sweeping view to the foot of the mountains. ... I found my mother safe. She had been weeding grass in a field about two miles southeast of the city when she saw the flash . . . threw herself face down on the ground...
...give up Elizabeth-an act which dissolves the whole countryside in similar generosity. One glowing convert is a city-bred schoolteacher (Frances Gifford), who not only learns to love the rural life that first appalled her with its narrowness but even comes to accept the rather expansive view that one must be tolerant toward intolerance...