Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Storm Signals. Everywhere, the cry was for more "young blood" and "progressive leadership." But most Republicans, like National G.O.P. Chairman Hugh Scott Jr., had only half-learned the lesson of 1948. Diagnosing the election, Scott declared: "The public has accepted the intervention of government in its daily life . . . Ours is a spiritual job of moving the minds of people-not just a mechanical job of moving people to the polls." Then, in the next breath, he added: "In the days to come, we've got to run up the storm signals . . . We have got to convince the people that...
...intellectuals have always claimed that those American nouveaux riches are uncouth. They have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world-and not even a pretty one-with plumbing instead of arteries, ice water instead of blood, neuroses instead of a heart and a radio instead of a brain...
...take it easy; there was nothing much they could do about it then. Her trouble was that the by-pass between the aorta and the main artery to the lungs failed to close some time after birth. The open by-pass is vital to the fetus (fetal blood does not get oxygen from the lungs before birth), but it is harmful in later life because it puts an extra strain on the heart...
...wrung my children's bodies dry of blood...
...party leader is the realist who accepts people as they are and is willing to wear red gloves to hide the blood on his hands if that will advance the party cause...