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...bustle of European statesmen that began with the death of EDC slowed to a walk last week, and the anger simmered down to workaday asperity. Yet, oddly enough, the new pace did not necessarily mean a slackening of urgency; it reflected a feeling that the difficult process of rearming the Germans had better be done right this time...
...heavily down. They pounced on the phrase,"perseverance and patience," which to them opened up a vista of endless conferences, endless hopes, endless delays. Though Churchill insisted that he saw "no contradiction" between bringing Germany into EDC immediately and simultaneously "faithfully striving to reach a workaday understanding" with the Russians, others did. In France, Churchill's words gave fresh encouragement to the foes...
...regarded as a disease of wartime camps with poor sanitation; peacetime outbreaks were relatively few and usually limited to overcrowded institutions such as orphanages, mental hospitals and prisons. Today, inflammation of the liver as a result of invasion by a virus is becoming a major health problem in the workaday, peacetime...
Human Failings. Dallis, an amateur cartoonist before he went to Temple University medical school, had long toyed with the idea of starting an educational comic strip about the workaday problems of a U.S. doctor. When he went to Toledo in 1946, as director of the newly established Toledo Mental Hygiene Center, he met a local resident named Allen Saunders, who does the continuity for successful comic strips himself (Mary Worth, Kerry Drake, Steve Roper). Saunders encouraged Dallis, put him in touch with Chicago's Publishers Syndicate and two artists who do the final drawings. So Rex Morgan...
...Race. "Under the spate of awe-inspiring vocables, the layman naturally felt that he too must dignify his doings and not be left behind in the race for prestige. Common acts must suggest a technical process. Thus we get 'contact' and 'funnel' as workaday verbs-and 'process' itself: 'we'll process your application' -as if it were necessary to name the steps or choices of daily life with scientific generality . . . The power of words over nature, which has played such a role in human history, is now an exploded belief...