Word: bespoken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tory party leaders, no fools, were not nearly so reactionary as the party label indicated. But there were many signs that all of these things were not enough. One sign was Aneurin Sevan's successful revolt. He could never have got away with it if he had not bespoken the mood of many Britons, moving with him toward a new postwar labor leadership...
...Fairly constant employment" more nearly expressed the postwar expectations of the 3,000 businessmen present than did the "full employment" bespoken by the Chamber's ebullient, optimistic (and reelected) president, Eric A. Johnston of Spokane. President Johnston's thesis: full employment is absolutely necessary if the peace is to be won. On this haunting subject the businessmen ranged from agreement with Johnston to approval of the Los Angeles Chamber's Frank P. Doherty: "Full employment is possible only in a slave state." But most of them were willing to let Johnston do their phrasemaking...