Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wind that Blew . . . The President, however, acted exactly as if he were setting out on a triumph. "If I felt any better," he told reporters at Washington's Union Station, "I couldn't stand it." He seemed to be certain that he was embarking on a sort of political Sheridan's Ride, and that his straggling troops would wheel, cheer, and rally behind him as he crossed the continent. As he began making the first of many off-the-cuff, rear-platform speeches, he announced again and again and again, that he was certain to be reelected...
...great many of you Democrats in 1940 ran off after a certain Governor [Missouri's former Governor Lloyd C. Stark], who was trying to cut my throat and he didn't do it successfully-they are not going to succeed this time either...
...Authors Karl E. Mundt and Richard M. Nixon both won political triumphs last week. In South Dakota, Mundt won the Republican nomination for the Senate, is an almost certain winner in November. In California, Nixon won both the Republican and Democratic nominations, assuring him of re-election...
...such a generally gloomy atmosphere, some speakers had little advice to offer. But one whose advice seemed to make sense was the University of Iowa's President Virgil Hancher. Said he: "Somewhere along the pathway of progress the art of contemplation has been lost. The Society of Friends, certain Roman Catholics, and an occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art. They retain anchorage in a sea of ceaseless motion, of disquiet and drifting. You can make it a rule of life to withdraw each day into quiet and contemplation. You have but one life...
...booklet illustrates the Defense Department's new "single-procurement" system (in which one branch of the service will do all the buying for all three branches in certain specified items), gives the address and telephone number of every procurement office in the country. No mere blueprint, it tells manufacturers what they should do-now-to avoid getting caught with their overalls down. With a reminder of items that were short in World War II (paper, asbestos, industrial diamonds, etc.), it lists what would be needed first in another war: bearings, generators, rubber-working machinery...