Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capped prime. Since Son Percy (Bobby Driscoll) is a regular little heller and Father (Don Ameche) a regular social booby trap, life is anything but simple for Mother (Myrna Loy). Finally one of Percy's pranks almost causes her to lose her second baby. But by dint of widespread praying, in which even the family terrier takes part, mother, child & movie pull through. A ragbag of wornout sentiment, So Goes My Love goes only soso...
...basic dangers threatening the country. One he labelled the psychology of controversy, perfected by Hitler, which achieves unity by hatred. "And no controversy is safer than one with the foreigner," he explained." His defenders at once become suspect. So a field which is difficult enough, where more than anywhere widespread agreement is essential, becomes a peculiar prey to controversy...
...delegates faced a confusing wealth of suggestions. Herbert Hoover wanted a temporary U.N. Food Administration to coordinate the world effort after Sept. 1, but "only during the period of food scarcity and agricultural reconstruction from the war." "The world," he said, "must quit charity as a basis for widespread food distribution" after Sept. 1. Fiorello LaGuardia snapped: "It is impossible to take a stop watch and say at a given hour on a given day, 'We are not going to give you any more food...
Horton adds: "There is a widespread hunger for security and hope in a world where everything is unsettled, and the threat of atomic war hangs over us all. In such a world men seek for deep, intimate fellowship-at least with one another, at best with that which is eternal and indestructible. In the small sects, many seem to find both kinds of fellowship...
...wind for the long-distance grind? The Department of Agriculture now predicted that Europe's food shortage would last into 1950. Food and Agricultural Organization experts of U.N. chimed in: "A critical world food shortage will continue at least until crops are harvested in 1947 . . . widespread drought in the months immediately ahead might well be even more disastrous than . . . the droughts which developed in 1945 and early...