Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sword & Umbrella. Earlier, Correspondent Sydney Smith of the London Daily Express cabled: "The final desperate stretch of routed South Koreans ranged from 16-wheeled tank-recovery vehicles to the smallest patrol cars . . . On some trucks I saw senior Korean unit commanders sitting among their troops, wearing white gloves, and carrying an official sword in one hand, and in the other a tree bough held over their heads like an umbrella. The South Koreans' terror of the Yaks' strafing has turned a sprig of leaves into a symbol of security...
...Stendhal character once said of women that "there's always something out of order in their machinery." Dr. Lincoln disagrees. A woman's life, she says, is roughly divided into three parts: childhood, womanhood and the years during and after the menopause. This final phase is not caused by any breakdown in a woman's machinery, says Dr. Lincoln; it is merely a part of the natural process of aging, and means that the hormone-secreting ovaries are getting tired...
...members of the sect called Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Christ's second coming is at hand. Some Witnesses believe the coming is so imminent that they put off marrying or having children until Armageddon signals the final act. Since all governments will soon be overthrown, the Witnesses do their best to ignore governments. They salute no flag, vote in no election, fight in no war. Their work is to bear witness to the coming Christ, and they do the job by doorbell ringing and by pamphlets, portable phonographs, sound trucks and streetcorner speaking. Like the early Christians...
...feeble a fanfare as the muffled Battle of Korea? Could the pushbutton war of the physicists start among the grass roofs of a land where men had hardly caught up with Galileo? Was this the place and was this the way in which Marx and Jefferson came to final grips...
Second Thoughts. As U.S. newspapers and magazines rushed reinforcements to Korea, the Department of Defense explained that it could give only tentative accreditation; the final O.K. rested with MacArthur. At week's end, news dispatches, all of which had to go out by a single Army telephone from South Korea to Tokyo, were being "surveyed" (i.e., censored) for security...