Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amsterdam, he grew up in London and Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation. A good-natured, soft-spoken labor diplomat as well as a staunch anti-Communist and a crack administrator, Oldenbroek seemed to many outsiders to be the ideal man for the job. "We are going to be efficient, in the American sense," he said last week. "That means when you want something, you go all out, and no rest until...
...There may be conflicts between Moscow and Peking . . . But for the present there is no detectable heresy, and it looks as if the Moscow-Peking Axis may work about as well as did the Berlin-Rome Axis...
...Well aware of the problem, Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government, which draws support from Italy's huge landowners, had failed miserably to carry out a sensible land-reform program. In Rome, Jesuit Father Riccardo Lombardi, who has carried his ardent revivalist "Crusade of Love" across the land (TIME, Dec. 20, 1948), cried: "The mighty of this world, the ecclesiastical and civil authorities, must do something for those who cannot wait because hunger gnaws at their vitals...
...Italy's peasants the right to move onto certain fallow lands-provided they first obtained permission from provincial committees set up to consider their claims. The committees have been working at a snail's pace; with his usual policy of trying to please everyone-the landowners as well as the peasants-De Gasperi had pleased no one. Last week the government was readying a new and better land-reform bill. It provides that unused or poorly used land of 8,000 estate owners will be expropriated, bought up by the government and sold to peasants on easy payment...
...Well, gentlemen, have you reached an agreement?" he asked as he walked into the palace conference room. When, the answer was not definite enough, the President himself went to work. Next day the plan was ready, and party chiefs signed the paper...