Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must lean to one side," Mao Tse-tung proclaimed last July. The Sino-Soviet Friendship Association was the apparatus the Communists set up to get Chinese to lean-toward the U.S.S.R., of course. Association branches have mushroomed in every sizable Communist-held city. Shanghai's got under way last week. On a public platform adorned with huge posters of Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, Shanghai's Communist leaders echoed the word: "We want to lean to one side...
...first, the republic's Communist boss, lean, saturnine ex-Partisan Gildo Gasperoni, publicly decried the suggestion that San Marino become another Monte Carlo to lure money from free-spending capitalists. "This means the end of a tradition," he said with hands raised before his eyes. But in the end, Gasperoni and his Communists pushed the plan through...
Pastor Martin Niemöller was packing his bags again. Since U.S. troops ended his eight-year imprisonment in concentration camps for defying Hitler, the lean, 57-year-old evangelical clergyman and ex-U-boat commander (World War I) has been known in Europe and the U.S. as German Protestantism's most dramatic spokesman. This week he is off to Australia...
Unlike Founder Sill and retiring Headmaster Father William Scott Chalmers (who was California-bound to take over North Hollywood's Harvard School), lean, 41-year-old John Oliver Patterson has never been a monastic. Born in Goldfield, Nev., he was originally trained as an architect at the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After two years as a practising architect the new "pater" left his drawing board for the ministry, now has 15 bustling years in Midwestern parishes behind him. In the last eight years he has swelled his Madison, Wis. congregation from...
Western Europeans last week got a reassuring glimpse of America, embodied by three of its topflight fighting men. For ten days, homely, lean-flanked Army Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley, boyish-looking Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (he is 50), and earnest, bespectacled Admiral Louis Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations, toured the Continent in Harry Truman's blue and silver plane, Independence, reviewed troops, placed wreaths, and did some top-secret chatting with leaders of the Atlantic pact nations. The visitors' chief task was to show Western Europe that they took an interest...