Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ghostwriting of presidential speeches moved Novelist James Hilton (Lost Horizon) to a startling proposal. Why stop at speechwriting? he demanded in the Atlantic. "The late President was fortunate in having a magical radio personality; but for some future President who hasn't," Hilton tactfully put it, "why not borrow a Voice? And the step after that would be the Face-obviously one chosen for its photogenic qualities. . . . Thus would be evolved a composite of assorted perfections...
...certain that he was famous in the U.S. that he left his guitar in France: U.S. guitar manufacturers would give him guitars and pay him for playing them. Last week, before he could go on stage in Cleveland's Public Music Hall, he had to go out and borrow a guitar...
...would be tragic, indeed, if another period of spiritual bankruptcy were to be foisted upon the United States and the world. What is called for is a 'tough-minded idealism,' to borrow Mr. Conant's phrase, that will utilize the moral and idealistic energy generated during the war for peacetime social goals, that will establish practical aims for common action. "Tough-minded idealists" are needed to lead and implement such a program. Only thus may this country preserve its moral leader shop among nations and continue to lead the way to peace and well-being...
Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Father was a soft touch. Every day Helen lined up her schoolmates at his soda fountain. Helen was rationed to two sodas a day, but usually managed to borrow against the future. Father read Andersen's and Grimm's fairy tales to his kids; if there was a vaudeville show he took them, and never mind about classes. Summers he and Helen fished in Wisconsin; winters it was duck hunting in the Illinois River, and Helen had a small shotgun made specially for her. During baseball season, Helen got up from...
...Gold Coasters' chances appear to be a little tarnished by the fact that they rarely have enough men out at one practice to run through any plays. Against Kirkland in scrimmage, they were forced to borrow three players in order to field a team and on previous occasions Adams has had as few as five reporting for practice...