Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's cattalo looks more like a bull than a buffalo, but it has inherited the buffalo's robust qualities. It is bigger than a domestic bull, can stand cold much better. In weather which would freeze cattle to death, the cattalo survives...
...bigger cities, Ehrenburg had press conferences. As often as not, Ehrenburg asked most of the questions. His practiced polemics were a delight to polemical Sam Grafton but something of a puzzle to Southerners. His reply to questions about Soviet aggression was typical: "That is like asking a wounded soldier who has come home whom he intends to attack next." Initially the answer created sympathy; on second thought it seemed suspiciously oblique; on further thought it seemed to be no answer...
...that he didn't learn the hotel business from the scullery up, like many of his competitors. The important thing for success, says he, is to know finance, although he admits that "any flophouse can make money these days." But he does not think he will grow much bigger; he has found enough hotels to keep his money busy. Said he: "A lot of people might say that I'm a speculator . . . but . . . the last thing in the world I want to do is buy a low-interest bond...
...Bigger & Better. Although Texas had not yet called for a polio team, the largest state was not to be denied the largest whoop & holler. The sale of DDT was up 600%; old cotton-duster planes were spraying creek beds (although medical authorities question the effectiveness of such measures) ; a health official said that 20,000 outhouses were destined for a purge. A mother wrote health officials wanting to know if it "was safe to mail a letter out of San Antonio." High-school graduation ceremonies were being held by radio, to avoid assemblies. The publicity would not harm a forthcoming...
Obviously he wants a bigger and stronger miners' union, because that is the platform on which he parades. But he has very little association with mining these days, except when he stands in his pine-paneled office under his chandelier: a cogwheel hanging from mining augers, decorated with mining shovels and a sledge, supporting a ring of miners' lamps. The country's welfare is the miners', and for the country's welfare he has shown little regard...