Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lounging, in gaudy, relaxing clothes, in lawn chairs under the palms with the President at their center, the "Palm Tree Cabinet" debated the best ways to press for next year's stiff Fair Deal agenda. There seemed to be plenty of time for kittenish lightheartedness in the soft warmth of the Florida Keys. One day, for example, Congressional Liaison Man Joseph Feeney was roused from a nap in the sun by a dash of cold water. Above him, grinning broadly, stood the President of the U.S., holding two empty water tumblers...
Until he let himself go in London, Federal Security Administrator Ewing, like his fellow Fair Dealers, had been doing his level best not to get the Truman plan confused in the public's mind with the British plan. The Truman plan, to cost $4.5 billion a year at the start and more later, would be financed a little differently (by a direct payroll tax) and presumably be more limited in coverage. Well, would the U.S. program pass out wigs, spectacles and false teeth, just like Britain's? a reporter wanted to know...
...York reacted to history's worst water crisis much as it had reacted to the news that German planes might blow it up: nobody really believed it, but everybody did his best to see that somebody else did something about it. Even Communist officials urged their members to save water. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, and radio announcers ceaselessly proclaimed the emergency. Station WOR distinguished itself in particular with a doggerel sung to the tune of Turkey in the Straw...
...have to stop asking, is a man an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, or a Jew? We have to get back to a free evaluation of the individual. If I look around at my four or five best friends, I find that two or three of them are Jews . . . I am their friend because between us there exists the human relationship of love. We need the courage to love. Hate stems from a sluggishness of the heart; it is cheap and easy. Love is always a risk, but only a risk brings victory...
...longer really had to tell his musicians to relax. In eleven weeks as their first new conductor in 25 years, his musicians were freer of tension than they had been for years. In his first speech to them he had vowed, in his painful English, to do his best to maintain the high standards of the Boston. He also hoped "there will be joy." Forthwith, friendly "Charry" Munch (pronounced Moonsh) won their respect as a musician, and their love and obedience as a man. This week, as he rehearsed his 105 musicians for his eighth series of Boston concerts...