Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories of innate instinct that could never have come by any process of evolution concerns Fabre's experiments with the mason bee, experiments suggested to Fabre by Darwin and made after the latter's death. The mason bee (Chalicodoma pyrenaica) builds a house of cement about as big as a thimble, fills it with honey, lays its larva, covers it over and then dies. Fabre took such houses that were built an inch apart and interchanged them, coloring with different colors each house and its bee for identification purposes. He then took the bees ... to a point three...
After that he leaned back, fired up a big black cigar and invited the committee to do its worst. In two days of questioning him it made almost no real effort to shake his denials or probe his failure to recollect details...
...plainly just as stunned as the Senators at the idea that anything even smacking of larceny might have developed as a result of his own big heartedness and devotion to the common man. He proudly informed the committee that the FBI had investigated him because of a rumor that he had taken a $10,000 bribe and had found nothing. When he was asked if he would turn over his bank accounts (which the committee had already had for several days), he replied sonorously: "My financial records are available to this committee ... at any time...
Into the applause stepped big (225 pounds), bustling John Saylor, World War II Navy officer. He was the candidate of 86-year-old G.O.P. Boss Joe Grundy. "Your ancestors and mine established a new idea of government," said Saylor. "That new idea of government lasted 175 years-until the present Administration in Washington, which came out for the Socialist welfare state...
From Cleveland he bustled through three other of Ohio's big industrial counties. In the next 13 weeks he would cover some 84 more, appearing in the Senate only for important votes. The forthright and worried Taft made no secret of the reason for this activity. Confronted with an extraordinarily violent opposition, he faced defeat for reelection...