Word: awakener
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...more highly paid, and 2) cost the Federal Government an indispensable slice of its income. Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, a McKinley Republican, has dropped a tax-limitation bill into the Senate hopper, but the proposal is sleeping soundly, and only a loud popular demand-wildly improbable-would awaken...
...planted between the runways) and a home-grown crop of millionaires. The small farmer-owners, grown suddenly prosperous, make good customers for the show windows filled with gleaming new appliances and U.S.-made farm machines. Los Mochis, the sugar-mill center of the Fuerte valley, is just beginning to awaken. A new hotel is going up, and the streets are due for a coat of asphalt as soon as sewer lines are laid...
Wherever he has appeared, Furcolo's words have been carefully chosen and oft-times repeated. His initial task, as he states it, is to awaken Massachusetts to its precarious financial situation. He blames the Republicans for leaving the "largest budget, the greatest debt, the biggest deficit and the worst state credit rating" in the Common-wealth's history, but at the same time he is seeking increased state spending for social services and access to new sources of revenue. "Our financial situation," he concluded in one of his three inaugural messages, "is the worst it has been in the history...
...part pitchman, with the natural force of a Kansas twister and much the same blowhard approach. The stranger soon has the house in an uproar and Lizzie's head in a whirl with his promise to bring the rain their crops need, and with his threat to awaken the love her heart fears and longs for. Price: $100. "Electrify the cold front!" he cries. "Neutralize the warm front! Barometricize the tropopause!" Says Lizzie: "Bunk!" But the rainmaker has an answer for that. "Lady, you're right! . . . But you gotta take my deal because once in your life...
...into controversies in order to give force to his proposals. Before Congress, he identified himself and the prestige of his office with T.V.A., selective service, and reform of the Supreme Court. He tried to purge his party by refusing to endorse Southern Congressmen for reelection, and he sought to awaken the nation to aggression by the Japanese in his 1937 "Quarantine" speech. Under Roosevelt and Truman such leadership broke down only when they did battle with arrogant or short-sighted zeal...