Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week President Juho K. Paasikivi named his negotiators for the Russian pact. Four were proCommunists, but three had said that they opposed a military alliance with Russia. To those delegates reluctant to make the humiliating Kremlin visit, Paasikivi said: "There is no question of whether you have any desire...
Charles Ross, 62, a lanky hound-dog-sad-looking man who succeeded Steve Early as press secretary. Likable, intelligent, usually tired, he dogtrots through a delicate and strategic job; he is also handicapped by Mr. Truman's understandable but unhelpful desire to keep all details of his personal life...
A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' sharply vivid chronicle of a nymphomaniac's downhill flight from reality (TIME, Dec. 15).
His English experience includes an affair with an English scenic designer, satisfying his vague desire since adolescence to go to bed with a white woman; scrapbooks filled with clippings on his flight; dinners in his honor; studies in aeronautics, half-purposeful, partly an excuse for remaining in England; candid talks...
Contrary to the previous Democratic explanation--that its voters simply failed to show up at the polls--Flynn attributed the success of Leo Isacson over his nominee Karl Propper to the strong public desire for "protest" on the Palestine issue.