Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures wiped the smile off the Truman Doctrine. One showed Viennese workers and angry housewives massed before their old Imperial Palace; the sign they held aloft summed up their complaint in one German word which needed no English translation: "HUNGER...
...Communion of Hsiao. To Chen Li-fu, the way to virtue (and orderly society) is expressed in the word hsiao. To understand the Confucian notion of hsiao is to understand a great deal about Chen Li-fu and his China. Hsiao means, roughly, filial piety. But it stands for more than that. It means that the individual is nothing, the family everything. Hsiao holds Chinese society together; but it is also used as an excuse for graft and nepotism. Hsiao imposes on a man responsibilities the West does not know; but it also tends to modify the sense of personal...
...Chungking days, the two would cross the Yangtze together to the presidential home high above the south bank. Watchers would see two silent figures in the Gimo's power launch -Chiang in unadorned uniform, Chen in mandarin gown, reading each other's thoughts, rarely uttering a word...
...Battle. What next? The Communists would fight their ban. In a 15th-floor office on Rio's main-stem Avenida Rio Branco, moon-faced Communist Lawyer Sinval Palmeira clutched the multipage appeal he will present to the Supreme Tribunal. He had a diplomatic good word for the Yankees. "The U.S. Constitution," he said, "is helping me to write...
...Columbia bacteriologists got to thinking about a very nasty subject: bacterial warfare. They decided that the U.S. Government ought to know what they were thinking, so they wrote it all down in a 40,000-word paper. That was early in 1942; the authors were subsequently hired by the Government's ultra-secret biological warfare section. Even though it was written without access to Washington's secret information, the paper looked like much too thorough an estimate of the possibilities of bacterial warfare for general circulation in wartime...