Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atoll of Tetiaroa . . . Dr. Williams was the only dentist in Papeete for years, and he did quite a business-considering the Polynesians' love for "glitter-work" in their mouths . The royal Pomare family fell in debt to Dr. Williams for gold fillings . . . so they gave him Tetiaroa to clear up the bill...
...Safety. The reparations agreement was made on the optimistic assumption that Germany, under four-power control, would be administered as an economic unit. After it became clear that Moscow would block unification, the West stopped further capital shipments to Russia (she did receive some equipment, including a Daimler-Benz aircraft factory and part of the great Kugelfischer ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt). The U.S. began to realize that wholesale dismantling provoked resentment among German workers, and seriously interfered with German-and therefore with West European-recovery, which was the West's supreme objective. In other words, dismantling was making...
...evil,' said Beelzebub to the snake, 'and most deadly is your fang; but you cannot wound from afar like the deadly tongue of the slanderer, from which there is no escape, even though mountains or oceans intervene. It is clear that he is more evil, so give place...
...warming Okinawa's people. On a hill above the southern Okinawa plain lie the ruins of Shuri castle; all that remains of the ancient home of Okinawa's rulers is an iron drinking fountain shaped like a dragon with gaping jaws out of which pours a clear stream of water into a quiet pool. Just above the old castle site stand five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open. It has a student and faculty body...
Policy Partnership. Secretary Pearson's speech turned out to be one of the most forthright statements of foreign policy ever made in the Canadian Parliament. In 90 minutes, he made it clear that the old Canadian policy of stringing along calmly with Britain and the U.S., developed and consistently followed by Mackenzie King, was no longer the rule under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. Canada had some strong opinions of her own and she wanted policymaking partnership with the big powers. Said Pearson: "The U.S. must . . . recognize [Canada] ... as a cooperating partner, not as a camp follower...