Word: contender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bricks at his favorite targets-the 80th Congress, the "privileged few," the "vested interests." He recalled that Minnesota had been carved out of Thomas Jefferson's boldly expensive Louisiana Purchase, which he likened to his own plan of expansion: the Fair Deal. Cried Truman: "There are people who contend that these programs will cost too much, just as the reactionaries in Jefferson's day contended that $15 million was too much to pay for a million square miles of new territory. They were wrong in Jefferson's time, and they're just as wrong today...
...this is as it should be, perhaps, in an institution devoted to the development of the mind. But we would contend that there is no harm in extending the advantages of a Harvard education to otherwise qualified men who also play football...
...Reader Presnail's point is one that has long stumped the experts. Many of them contend that the whole field should be called from the catcher's point of view. Just as many more insist that the batter's stance is an exception and can be rightly viewed only from the pitcher...
Twentieth Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck recently decreed that they want good stories, too. In the last few years, many studios have tried hard to get better screen stories, and the result has been surprising. Moviegoers, the exhibitors contend, have noticed that the stories are better, but they have reacted far more strongly to the performers. Many of these actors were young not-too-hopefuls who got their parts mainly because movie business was bad last year and the studios were glad to use inexpensive-talent. Suddenly the public gaze converged on them like sunlight through a burning glass...
Thousands of landlubbers had to contend with nature, too; the eastern slope of the Rockies, usually as dry as a bowl of corn flakes during a milk strike, was wet down by torrential rains. Streets were flooded, cows marooned and rivers pushed over their banks in Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. Almost everywhere else the weather was hot; beer and bathing-suit sales boomed and female sunbathers went to the office looking as though they had been parboiled. The sun was almost the undoing of people near Wilmington, Del., where a dead whale washed ashore and stank up the countryside...