Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Oxford Union motion "regretting the influence exercised by the U.S." [TIME, June 12) may easily give a misleading impression to readers not familiar with the circumstances. First, the Union is by no means representative of undergraduate opinion; it speaks only for its own members. Second, voting is affected as much by the merit of speeches as by the merit of motions; it is, after all, a debating club. Third, the oratory of Mr. Randolph Churchill, in marked contrast to that of his distinguished father, has always been a sure vote-loser amongst Oxford audiences. Neglect of these considerations caused widespread...
From nearly every town in every U.S. state and from 20 foreign nations, 46,634 Boy Scouts swarmed into Pennsylvania's Valley Forge last week. They were more or less controlled by hundreds of harried Scoutmasters with benign faces and bony knees. The occasion: the second National Boy Scout Jamboree (the first: 1937), probably the biggest gathering of boys in one spot in the history of the Western Hemisphere...
...election night, 36-year-old Herman Talmadge, the youngest governor in the U.S., his pretty second wife, and Georgia Kingmaker Roy V. Harris watched the returns in a seventh-floor suite of Atlanta's Henry Grady Hotel. Actually, the Talmadges were just observing the formalities. Even if Herman lost the popular vote, Georgia's one-sided county-unit electoral system was bound to keep him in office, just as it had his pappy, the late Gene Talmadge, before...
...Joan was have her catch the measles. He took her to visit a measly six-year-old, and the children played together for an hour. But stubborn nature refused to take its course, and Joan missed the measles. In March, under careful medical supervision Joan was exposed to a second measles case. Once again, nothing happened...
...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...