Word: containment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pegler, the Enquirer complained, had noted U.S. efforts to contain Russia and had "depicted them all as incitements to war." A fine ferret of union graft and a "castigator of crooners," said the Enquirer, Peg "is not among the world's most noted statesmen. . . . His competence in matters of foreign policy, in other words, is scarcely comparable to that of Secretary Marshall [or] Senator Vandenberg...
...produce a third idea (synthesis); this in turn has its antithesis, and so on. Marx expressed history by putting class conflicts in the place of thesis and antithesis. The culminating conflict was that called forth by The Machine. The last synthesis, which would be unique because it would not contain its own negation, would be the classless society...
Doris Carroll '49 and Ann Coombs '48, chairmen of the drive, have set a 1000-volume goal for the campaign, which will answer a plea for books from a student at Charles, who reported that the stacks of the third oldest university in the world contain no books published between...
...steady stream of reports on German research has flowed into U.S. industry. Last week the Office of Technical Services offered more such "reparations": microfilms of documents prepared by German scientists themselves. Packed with detailed drawings, research results, minutes of technical meetings, the microfilms contain the compressed know-how of Germany's famed and closemouthed industries. Eventually they will cover the whole range of German research, from synthetic fuels to plastic dental fillings. Price of the first film (wartime developments in aluminum processing...
...ancients are wrapped, not in the mud, but in the deeper mystery of a still-untranslated language. The big-nosed Hittites (Sons of Heth in the Bible), who dominated Asia Minor from earliest biblical times, left stone-cut inscriptions so numerous and so lengthy that they seemed likely to contain plenty of ancient history. But since the diggers lacked a key to the stiff hieroglyphic characters, all they could do was bite their learned nails and hope that a key stone would turn up eventually...