Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrests were accompanied by a rat-a-tat fire of Moscow-inspired Groza decrees: drastic shake-up of the Ministry of Industry to insure adherence to Communist economics; virtual nationalization of industry; a budget cut to speed the purge of "unreliable" civil servants; an order empowering shop committees to dictate a purge of industrial employees; transfer of the best Rumanian Army corps to the Communist-run Ministry of Interior; purge of several thousand Army officers; an order that peasants must thresh their grain in the presence of Government officials to prevent widespread hoarding...
...austere beauty. Though Shakers had little use for book-learning, they were inventors. In an ecstatic vision, Shaker Sister Sarah Babbitt invented the buzz saw. Shakers are credited with inventing the one-horse shay. At a time when the quality of garden seeds was poor, Shakers gained a virtual monopoly of the seed business by the purity and vitality of their seeds...
...cannot be happy under a government whose announced aims, they say, include not worrying about anyone with more than a 1000 pound income. Tradition-conscious upper middle class people make polite jokes about the boorishness of Labor ministers, sigh "If Mr. Churchill were only running things," and act like virtual disinterested strangers in their own country...
...virtual social recluse for several years after his first wife died, McCormick has mellowed and relaxed since December 1944, when he married his neighbor and onetime tenant, gay and gracious Mrs. Maryland Mathison Hooper. Last year he joined the Wheaton First Presbyterian Church, and plunged into an enthusiastic study of Presbyterian theology. Nowadays at Cantigny there are movies and a buffet on Friday nights, and the Colonel and his lady take frequent flying jaunts in his well-appointed Lockheed Lodestar. At his party last Christmas night (complete with boar's head and singers from WGN), he unbent...
...virtual replay of last Thursday's contest at Chestnut Hill, with the Eagles soaring to an early lead and surviving a late-inning Crimson threat to pull away for their triumph. Dan O'Brien gained his second win over the Varsity, limiting Dolph Samborski's forces to four hits. Brendon Reilly started for Harvard, and lasted until the ninth inning, when Ira Godin subdued B.C., effectively...