Word: fullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back from three weeks' vacation in Key West, Fla., Harry Truman, bronzed and healthy, plunged into a busy three days of conferring, met for nearly two hours one morning with the Cabinet. At his first full-dress press conference in a month, the President quickly brushed aside any specific questions on the Administration's plans and policies. But the main lines were already well known: don't rock the boat; propose no bold, new experiments., but insist on putting through the controversial Fair Deal measures (civil rights, health plan, etc.) already proposed...
...Cells. The gentlemen in Le Monde's offices printed the letter in full and sent a reporter to investigate the letter writer's story. Jean Duval,* the reporter found, was an enrolled Communist. He had been a plumber, but World War I injuries had made him unfit for his trade, and he had gone to work as an unskilled laborer. During the Nazi invasion in World War II he fled Paris, lost all his belongings. Because of bureaucratic technicalities he received none of the allotments for war victims. Le Monde's reporter described Duval's home...