Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waves of Doubt. When this word got to Formosa, Chiang Kai-shek seemed and sounded almost blankly uncomprehending. Said Chiang: "What Mr. Dulles is quoted as having said seems completely incompatible with our stand and does not sound like him. I cannot tell right away whether Mr. Dulles has made the remarks attributed to him for diplomatic reasons or with other purposes in mind." Chiang's Nationalist Chinese officials hurled bitter words at Americans-"betrayal," "doublecross...
...Myles Mace carries out a threat he made recently, a how-to-succeed-in-business book may appear within the next few years under the title The Gospel According to St. Mace. And believers of the new Word, whether they attend lunch hour worship at the church on the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, or a baccalaureate service at a university chapel, need have only the grace of competency...
...Recognition of Red China" and "Self-determination for Taiwan" have become slogans but their meaning is seldom precisely defined. Neither is as easy as it sounds. Both represent old-fashioned American ideas which may not work out as effectively as we may hope in practice to-word China...
This 1945 episode is typical not only of the style of her autobiography, but of Fannie Hurst's literary career: her word power has somehow never quite kept pace with her lofty ambitions. Not that Autobiographer Hurst is short of words. She has plenty of words...
...Pressure" is surely a misleading word for the normal process of consultation between an undergraduate group and its faculty adviser, who merely did his duty by pointing out some of the difficulties in the undertaking. The decision to produce another play was democratically arrived at by the students in the group, some of whom had had their own hesitations from the start. Two years ago, when the Dramatic Club was considering Hamlet, I had the same sort of discussion with its talented student director, Stephen Aaron. I am glad that he and his fellow members decided to go ahead, since...