Word: caste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...into the nation the voice of Willkie reached was something for Republicans and Democrats both to ponder. Wendell Willkie had received more votes than any other Republican candidate in history. But he could not expect even lip loyalty from all the 21,900,000 voters who had cast their ballots for him. Many were simply habitual Republican voters. Many simply disliked and distrusted Roosevelt above all else. Many a professional who had supported him was only casually concerned about anything so academic as a national issue, was far more interested in his own backyard fences...
...State Department a queer situation obtained. Many a Roosevelt voter had in his heart cast half of his ballot for Secretary Cordell Hull. The Willkie campaign had courted Mr. Hull, would perhaps have asked him to stay on for a period. But the long friction between Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles could not go on indefinitely. Furthermore, Roosevelt was expected, after the usual six-to-nine-month period of hesitation, to nudge Hull out for a younger, more aggressive man. Yet it was said that the grave old Tennessean would never leave his post, if Welles...
...iron permits a stiff rocking motion, which does not jar the leg. Cast and iron are removed after eight weeks. The pins are pulled out painlessly with pliers...
...soon as swelling disappears, a soft plaster cast is wound directly over both leg and pins. Several days later, depending on the type of fracture, the patient is fitted with a "walking iron"-a narrow, U-shaped strip of iron about one and a half feet long. The base slips under the instep like a stirrup, the two long arms are bound with more plaster up either side...
This year Lolly's tour, promoted by Music Corporation of America, is abroad with a new cast, including Sabu, Binnie Barnes, Brenda Joyce, Ilona Massey...