Word: whet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three times last week, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald lowered his bursitis-racked bulk into the witness chair of the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Each time he dropped enough names and dollar signs to whet the investigators' appetites, then retreated into playful forgetfulness or plain refusal to answer. Items: ¶On his 1948 tax return was this item: "Presidential election bets, $20,000." Said Grunewald: "I bet on Harry Truman when everybody else dropped him." Where did he place the bet? With Miami Bookmaker Harold Salvey, a Kefauver committee witness now under indictment for income...
...Your cutting "creeping censorship" story [TIME, May 5] fails to point out that reporters, often anxious to stay "on the good side" of some punk politician . . . have perhaps unwittingly and unethically abetted the new trend. Additionally, some publishers whet their pet ax on the "cant' we kill that story" these. Perhaps ours is the oldest profession after...
...predecessor survey was conducted by TIME in 1940, and was published in 1941 as The U.S. College Graduate. The statistics we gathered then-on age, sex, earnings, family status and occupation-only served to whet our curiosity further about the nation's 2,700,000 graduates (4,700,000 by the time of our new study). We said then it was "a beginning to a larger continuing examination of the function of higher education in the workings of a democracy." After World War II, with enrollment of veterans swamping registrars, and with unprecedented numbers of our college-age population...