Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That was the best presentation I've heard from the American side in the three years we've been going." Secretary Acheson would like to have a whole task force of roving negotiators like Philip Jessup...
...Western Europe's output from mines and factories was up to prewar level and 14% above 1947. Exports were up 20% over last year's. Electric power output and freight traffic, despite all of war's dislocations, were now far above prewar levels. Said Hoffman: "This is the time to hit hard for European recovery-time for the Europeans to take drastic and sometimes painful steps necessary for real recovery, time for the U.S. to back their efforts to the full...
...little plumbline which hangs inside a small circle of wire; when the weight at the end is deflected enough to touch the circle it completes a circuit, and a polite little sign on the scoreboard says "Tilt," or in the case of one popular machine using a Western theme, "Yipee Tilt!" Even this device is often insufficient however. A veteran "fifty-mission-man" can hit the machine vertically and bounce a ball back up the playing board without tilting it. Another technique, still more refined, is bodily lifting the whole machine and propping the front legs on the player...
...Paleface. Bob Hope and Jane Russell go prospecting successfully for laughs on an old western plot (TIME...
...bulk of the book is devoted to the twin impulses: self-assertion and self-transcendence. Koestler believes that the western world owes its troubles to the "hypertrophy of the self-asserting drives with a corresponding decline of the self-transcending impulses." There were times, he holds, when man was more capable of being both self-assertive and self-transcending (in the Greek and Renaissance civilizations) and by being a bit of both he managed to be a more balanced, stable creature. But he is sure that today man is either overactive or over-passive-or a dissatisfied neurotic who plunges...