Word: basks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, as the Union League prophets knew, the undiscriminating sun would shine on all Republicans. The Chicago Tribune's isolationist Robert McCormick would bask in it. But the Democratic sun had warmed the backs of even stranger interlopers. This was one of the unpleasant and confusing results of a two-party system...
...officers of the Fly were rather unhappy about it, but taxes is taxes, and Navy wives wouldn't have gone for the atmosphere. Now the traffic accident as Bow and Mt. Auburn, familiarly known as the Poon, will bask in sunlight, and the view from the Sanctum will be brightened by a "pleasant garden spot, surrounded by a hedge," 50 is still exclusive...
...facts. . . . One's imagination is not broad enough to conjure up a true picture of the horrors of war. We must see and read about it first hand. It will take a crack on the chin to make us stand up and fight. Don't let us bask in the sunshine of victory, nibbling on chocolate-covered communiques of military achievement, while our sons and brothers and husbands are wallowing in the mud and blood of war throughout the world...
...confront the nation" make it imperative to continue him in office. Not a voice was raised in dissent. Four days later the Senate passed the same resolution, also unanimously. Unless dissatisfied palace plotters and the Harlem exiles get together and oust Stenio Vincent by force, he will continue to bask in office until...
When the New Deal was young, Franklin Roosevelt used to bask in the warmth of as friendly a press as any President ever had. Gradually that honeymoon waned. Papers began to criticize various New Deal measures editorially, and the President began to take cracks at publishers. Reporters who asked pointed questions were lectured by a Roosevelt who did not smile. New Deal lieutenants like Harold Ickes (who last year wrote a book damning newsmen as America's House of Lords) attacked the press as a tool of Big Business...