Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nonplussed, I was bewildered . . . to see well-informed and ordinarily accurate TIME report in its May 2 issue that Stan Jones, writer of Ghost Riders,* is a "leathery-necked forest ranger" in Death Valley National Monument...
...Well, that being so," said the judge, "it seems to me it reduces itself to an absurdity because on that theory you couldn't punish anybody for such a conspiracy unless the Government was just about to be overthrown, and then it would be too late...
...Italy's hope lies in improved farming methods and more industrialization, but they are not able to move fast enough toward their goals. Said one high-ranking American in Rome: "Unless we do more than we have in the past year, unless we move faster, we might as well walk out of here in 1953 [when EGA ends] and let the Communists take over...
Like any smart dictator, Spain's Francisco Franco keeps a parliament on hand to rubberstamp his acts and to acclaim his glory. The opening of his well-trained Cortes is one of Spain's gaudiest state affairs; for schoolchildren and factory workers, it is a holiday. Obligingly, Franco likes to spice the annual occasion with holiday cheer, in the form of some piece of good news...
...Well aware of what had happened to Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran nevertheless decided to talk back. In a circular letter made public last week, Josef Beran, veteran of Dachau, charged that the government was silencing the Catholic press, that church collections had been prohibited in many places, and that church schools were being "liquidated step by step." Said the archbishop: "The Catholic Church should enjoy the absolute freedom to which it has a right, both God-given and guaranteed by the existing Constitution...