Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capitalist. During the depression, the Star laid off no one, cut no salaries. The American Newspaper Guild has never made much headway on its staff. Staunchly Republican, the Star makes a point of getting along with the right kind of Democrats, like Roy Roberts' sometime poker and drinking companion, Harry Truman...
...National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio Manufacturers Association offered 200 radios for the 200 best letters on the subject: "What I Think about Radio." By last week N.A.B. had over 100,000 letters (80% of them gushily friendly). Samples: ¶ "The radio has become a constant companion and friend. Of course, there are times when I become annoyed with my 'buddy' and then I am likely to turn a haughty back to it, only to return, repentant and lonely, after a few days. . . ." ¶ "I can always satisfy my desires in the wonder...
Alfred Boley, counterman of the Meredith roadhouse where he claimed serving Gardiner and a shorter companion on January 28, examined battery rosters of the 97th New Hampshire National Guard, in an unsuccessful effort to identify the second man who called the employee "an old Leyte buddy...
With the end of the war, which halted a wartime full employment in this country, there has come a companion feature, paradoxical in its implications--the idea that the dismal period of the Twenties, roaring boom and tragic bust, will be repeated. Fritz Sternberg not only believes that the future will follow the same cycle, but that this time the depression will provide the coup de grace of the whole capitalist world. A socialist of the German stripe, non-Communist, but more in sympathy with their viewpoint and efforts than with those of the "reactionary capitalists," it is not difficult...
When Collins' companion gave the alarm, troops swarmed into the mazes of Jerusalem's ancient Moslem cemetery...