Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who has seldom shunned the spectacular, made an ear-jarring proposal last week. He suggested dropping an atomic bomb to crack the more than 1,800-ft.-thick Antarctic polar icecap. Thus, the U.S. might gain access to the copper, iron, gold, coal and other minerals reported hidden below...
Markoosha Fischer's indictment of Moscow correspondents (TIME, Dec. 17) is, it seems to me, unfair to a lot of American newsmen. . . . The contemporary "freshmen in world politics" almost to a man fought the good fight with the Narkomindel in an effort to secure greater access to information and a freedom from arbitrary Soviet censorship...
...Deal bosses. In 1944 Chicagoans called in the lumbering but prestigious National Education Association to investigate. A four-man N.E.A. committee representing some 900,000 U.S. teachers poked into the smelly cellars of Chicago's school system, even though they were barred from its classrooms and denied access to its records. The committee charged Kelly's Johnson with favoritism, intimidation, venality and of operating a spy system which he openly bragged about...
Karl Shapiro's 2,072-line Essay on Rime was written in the Pacific, without access to books. Modest in tone but ambitious in purpose, it is the effort of a talented poet to keep writing in the midst of a war. But it is a disturbing indication of what poetry (and its readers) have come to, that the publication of this work was widely regarded as an important event. The poem contains many unexceptionable and not too generally recognized ideas and statements ("dialectic is the foe of poetry"). But it contains little that is not self-evident...
...their struggle with General Motors, first target among the auto industry's Big Three, the United Automobile Workers played a last diplomatic trump card- an offer to arbitrate. But the union demanded that the arbiters have access to General Motors' books-a provision that was anathema to the company...