Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...southwest were almost trapped by North Koreans. They were saved by the caution and good sense of the commander of the point company, Captain Robert Barrow of St. Francisville, La. Barrow took his men across the Seoul-Mukden railroad tracks, deployed them on a ridge and refused to advance past an apparently deserted group of buildings and a residential sector until he had scouted the ground...
...Francisco music lovers, who are as proud of their 28-year-old opera company as they are of their cable cars and bridges, like nothing better than to score a beat on Manhattan's Met. Often enough in past years, with the help of showmanship, fresh scenery and one of the best-equipped opera houses in the world, they have done just that. Last week, at the 1950 opening-night performance, they got the jump again by offering the U.S. operatic debuts of three European stars in a bang-up production...
...past several months, the supply of newsprint has tightened and the grey-market price has shot up. Last week, amid rumors of a newsprint shortage, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reluctantly announced: it can't get the paper it needs and will have to ration advertising (old customers served first). Rationing would cut its volume 20% under last year's. Said President George C. Diggers: "We figured we would save some newsprint by consolidating the Sunday papers (TIME, March 27), but we did not save enough to make up for the expansion of the daily Constitution . . . For a while...
...Austria last week a trusted emissary of Hungary's Roman Catholic bishops, who had slipped past the Iron Curtain, gave the first details of how his church had sought to stop its complete liquidation by coming to terms with Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi (TIME, Sept. 11). What Rakosi had given, Rakosi had taken away...
...decided to preach himself. The white preacher sat in the pew and listened to a sermon in a foreign language . . . The Africans [determine] the policies of the churches . . . The missionaries have no authority over the natives except that which love provides. There has been much service in the past, so there is much love...