Word: chime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowds, rode for hours in cars through cities that looked almost the same, sat listening while Willkie hammered away at his message, his voice hoarse with urgency as well as weariness: "Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong." Reporters got so they could chime in on this chorus. One strange feature of this train's life was the rarity of poker games, bridge, barbershop harmony. Reason: the correspondents were usually too tired...
Last week in England a vast debate began. Participants were about 3,000 debating societies, cooperatives, trade unions. Invited to chime in editorially were 300 newspapers throughout the world, including Mahatma Gandhi's Young India. Also invited was Dorothy Thompson. Lead-off debater was H. G. Wells, with an article in the London Daily Herald, whose owl-faced, idealistic Reporter Ritchie Calder started the whole thing. Subject: A New Declaration of the Rights...