Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...browned-out, hamstrung nation, TIME [May 13] eruditely announces that cities are running short of power, plants are shutting down, things are in a hell of a state. Your leading article . . . quotes an ominous John L. Lewis and two wrathful Senators, contains not a word about specific issues or facts involved...
Five days later the significance of his speech became clear. From Washington came word of a joint arctic defense plan for the U.S. and Canada. It was based on the military premise that Canada's vast northland might become a battleground in another war. Operation Musk-Ox (TIME, May 20) had proved that the north was no longer impassable or impregnable. It had also proved that Canada had not yet developed the proper equipment for warfare there...
...shell, inoculated the thin membrane inside with infectious material, sat back to study the results through a tiny "window" of melted paraffin and cover glass. The fowlpox virus throve. Subsequent tests with smallpox vaccine showed that one egg would produce enough to protect 1,000 children for life. Word of the new technique spread throughout the scientific world...
What to do about it? In a 13,500-word report to President Truman, Snyder urged some quick action first, some long thinking later. Quick steps...
...itself. Finally losing all patience with Harry Truman, it burst out all over Page One with a scalding editorial headed PRESIDENT TRUMAN GRINS WHILE LEWIS STRIKES. Excerpts: "Today the country is all but paralyzed . . . the nation beholds its President halting, hesitating, shuffling, postponing. . . . There is a good, old-fashioned word for all this. It is Cowardice. Useless Cowardice, silly Cowardice, unfruitful Cowardice...