Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...character. He is a man of unquestioned idealism, "the most powerful voice in the world," who in his speeches outlines a course of action which, if carried out, means a revolutionary transformation of the world. But he also declares a national emergency "after which nothing happens." He is a paradox...
OPACS alone had over 300 letters on file last week. A sampling of them rings every change on the old poverty-in-the-midst-of-plenty paradox...
...honorary doctorate of laws in absentia from the University of Rochester, his first degree from a U.S. university. The reason the Prime Minister permitted Rochester to stage the kudos scoop of the year was that his mother, born Jennie Jerome, was a native of Rochester. But by a strange paradox, Mr. Churchill accepted the degree from a Quaker who for two years has fought to prevent the U.S. from joining Britain in the war and is a good friend of arch-isolationist Charles Lindbergh-Rochester's President Alan Valentine...
...game. For although the Bullfrog of the Mediterranean might devour lesser organisms (except those, like Greece, that stuck in his throat), he was firmly locked in the alligator-jaws of Nazi conquest. Were he a man to be amused by his own misfortune, he might laugh gutturally at the paradox of his position: If his ally wins the war, Italy may rule an empire of sorts, but Germany will rule Italy. If his enemy wins the war, Italy may at least rule Italy...
Last week the oil paradox hurried the whole transport problem on its urgent way to the President's lap. He would have to find a hemisphere-minded Transport Coordinator; Railroader Ralph Budd admitted that his resignation was in the President's hands. Week before. ICC Sage Joseph B. Eastman warned the railroads that if their service breaks down, the Government may take them over again, as in World...