Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disaster Compounded. As the week began, there had been inspired rumors that Bulgaria was about to desert the Axis. But before the Bulgars could act, the Rumanians beat them to it. King Mihai himself jumped on the Allied bandwagon and, for once, a Balkan king's act represented the will of the people (see FOREIGN NEWS). For the Wehrmacht, defections in the Balkans meant disaster at astronomically compounded interest: 22 German divisions on the Rumanian front were doomed to defeat, most of them to death or capture; 25 Rumanian divisions which had been helping the Nazis turned against them...
...flying wedge of cops, came Illinois. Breathing heavily, Ed Kelly grabbed the microphone, shouted out: "Illinois now 54 for Truman, four for Wallace." He turned to a henchman: "Did we make it?" He had not. It was all over. Running fast for the Truman bandwagon, Ed Kelly had only managed to get his fingernails on the spare tire...
...past, knowing him for a highly practical artist, were inclined to discount the heroism in his stubbornness. On the other hand, it was quite conceivable that the 80-year-old composer might have balked at riding the few remaining miles to music's Valhalla aboard the Nazi bandwagon...
...British Government and the Gaullist Government for some new and broadened form of recognition.* Out of all this loomed a possible solution: Britain would give De Gaulle's Government the kind of realistic recognition it wanted; the U.S. would then accept an accomplished fact and climb aboard the bandwagon...
Martinez pooh-poohed. Said he of the school strikes: "No children like going to school." But the military, impressed by the civilian stir, made as if to climb on the bandwagon. Martinez, impressed in turn, granted a partial amnesty. After 44 death sentences and many quiet executions, Salvadorians were not appeased...