Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...them (14 women, four men) in TIME Inc.'s Morgue (i.e., library of essential information). All are college graduates and graduate librarians. Their operation has been an important part of TIME'S editorial process since about 1937. By then our morgue had become so large and complex that the editorial researchers needed help in selecting from it the background material, facts and information they used for swift and accurate checking...
...narrative threads. It was a year of almost continuous desert warfare, of disaster in Greece and Crete, of crippling losses to U-boats, of devastating blitz, of almost unbroken defeat. What is much more remarkable than their coherent presentation is Churchill's astonishing grasp of innumerable and vastly complex situations as they arose and developed. The greatness of his leadership has never been better documented...
When she was five, an older boy playfully threw Betty off the end of a pier. She hit a nail in one of the pilings and snagged her left cheek, near the eye; the scar is still faintly noticeable. "It made my inferiority complex worse," says Betty. "The kids called me 'Bad-eye Bodie' and nicknames like that, that hurt real bad. So I acted fresh and tomboyish, as if I was tougher than anybody on the block...
...tell the nose. Her manager, a light blond, told us that in her less jungle-like moments La Voodoo was known as Stella Danfray. They were just in from Hollywood where DcMille had given her a screen test. And how did La Voodoo like Hollywood? "Ect is so complex, so hectic. But zee country ees so beautiful." What interested her most in the States? She looked around for her manager who had gone off in the corner with the buyers. American slang was the answer; she spoke English well, but these quaint expressions--they confused her. Someone in the little...
...didn't realize Harvard had such as inferiority complex," said a freshman, opposed by a sophomore from the same hall, whose experience had found Crimson men to be "conceited--on masse...