Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of the Czech newspaper Svobodne Slovo, now aptly retitled Nova Politika, does not mean "Free World" [TIME, March 8], but "Free Word." It is because the "Free Word" has ceased to exist in my country, not only as a newspaper but mainly as a means of expression, that I have resigned my position of Czechoslovak consul in New York City...
...Prague, TLJ waited to see what would happen to the newsstand copies of TIME'S March 1st and 8th issues, carrying accounts of the Communist coup, and the March 15th issue of LIFE International, which had a story on Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University. Word came on March 8 that TIME was banned for keeps from Czechoslovakian newsstands and that LIFE would henceforth be censored for "antiCommunist" content...
...word will I say about those brave men in the free hills who are ready every moment to lay down their lives for their ideals and those of their people...
...doom. When the delegates finally climbed into a chocolate-brown sleeper at Helsinki station, a small man in the crowd cried: "It's just like 1939!" Part of the crowd started to sing the Finnish national anthem; Communists countered with the Internationale. But the patriots had the last word. With conviction, they sang...
...made a plan for his life: he would spend 25 years learning, 25 years teaching, and 25 years doing "what I like best." Accordingly, one day in 1913, he simply failed to show up at the dean's office. He went to his Hor-torium (he coined the word) instead. Ever since that day, he has been doing "what I like best"-puttering in his greenhouse ("It is an oasis in one's life. . . . One has dominion"), cultivating his palms (he has the best collection in the world). He has traveled all over the globe-by plane, train...