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Coined in a grim party diatribe telling why Fallen Angel Earl Browder was expelled (TIME, Feb. 18), the term would henceforth describe "rotten liberal attitudes" among strays in the class struggle. Noting the enrichment of the language, the editors of the New York Times commented...
...Pacific would become a filigree of 22 bases, stretching from Hawaii to the China Seas, from the barren Aleutians to paradisiac Samoa. Pearl Harbor would continue to dominate the military map. But the U.S. armored highway across the Pacific, which once faded out a thousand miles beyond Pearl, would henceforth extend to Guam and Saipan...
...most ambitious space-voyage. Uranium 235 is not on the market, of course (or likely to be soon). Neither does anyone know how to harness it as a propellant. But such trifling obstacles do not discourage the space-voyagers. Their energy problem "solved" at last, they can henceforth revel in larger dreams...
...Henceforth, the charts and chronicles of ramified royal families would be guarded by the unsympathetic bureaucracy of Soviet Russia...
Comrades Napoleon and Snowball announced that Animalism had been reduced to Seven Commandments, which would henceforth be the unalterable law of Animal Farm. These were painted on the side of the barn. At 30 yards, any animal that could read (chiefly the pigs) could read that "All animals are equal." Later Comrade Snowball reduced the principles of Animalism to one line: "Four legs good, two legs...