Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Tom Dewey is still the front runner in the race for the GOPresidential nomination, his budget was scrutinized by politicos of all parties. In demanding a bigger budget and no tax cut, he had taken a stand opposite to that of Republicans in Congress, who want both a budget and tax cut. With a startling lack of political savvy, New York Democrats pounced on the Dewey budget, calling him a "champion fiscal juggler." Said the New York Times, which never rushes to overpraise Dewey: "A businesslike budget...
...Wilbur died of typhoid fever. Orville sold the company and his patents to Eastern capitalists in 1915. Orville had conceived the plane as a convenience for private citizens. He watched with pride and considerable dismay as planes became bigger and faster. Thanks to his pioneering, every nation would be made a neighbor. He had also unwittingly created an instrument of destruction that would loose unimagined violence upon the world...
This week the greatest telescope is almost ready. It is housed in a softly revolving dome 137 feet in diameter. The telescope weighs 500 tons, but is so exquisitely mounted that an electric motor not much bigger than an orange turns it on its bearings. Its 200-inch parabolic mirror gathers four times as much nebula light as Mount Wilson's 100-inch mirror. Palomar will see twice as far, and it may tell Hubble whether the universe is really exploding-or whether even stranger things are happening...
...down, come to the realization of Soviet peril which he had voiced at Fulton, 22 months before. He had seen it also follow his lead for Western unity. But he was not quite satisfied. He stomped out to the lobby after Bevin's speech, grumping: "I want something bigger, something bigger." Next day, before packed galleries (Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had come to listen), Churchill produced it: a proposal for one last bid for "lasting settlement" with Russia. He was not up to his oratorical form, but grim earnestness was in his words. Said...
Cried Duclos: "By these two plans all of you-small businessmen, small industrialists and tradespeople-will be thrown into the jaws of international big business. It is you, the little people, who are going to be bled white with-new taxes. . . . The bigger you are the less you pay. . . . But we, the Communist Party, will defend you and stand...