Word: daunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the evolution of ordinary street hockey, the inevitable introduction of plain speed racing, and a dubious form of amusement in which the participants dance while on roller skates, there didn't seem to be much left for people to do on wheels. All this failed to daunt one Lee A. Seltzer, an athletic-minded Chicagoan who figured that the millions of Americans who roller skate and the millions of Americans who wrestle ought to be thrown together in one merry mob. The Roller Derby originated in Chicago...
...conditions under which Amerika is produced would daunt many another editor. Articles and captions for each Russian issue are written in English in Amerika's twelfth-floor Manhattan offices, then flown to Moscow for translation and censorship. There unpredictable Soviet bureaucrats sometimes take ten days, sometimes ten weeks, to approve an issue before returning it to the U.S. to be printed and shipped back to Moscow. This long, fluctuating deadline means that most stories and pictures must be "timeless Americana." But out of 3,000,000 words, Moscow has deleted only about...
...Wisconsin primary results failed to daunt Toshiyo Oda. "Although many think Makkasu Gensui [Field Marshal MacArthur] made a poor showing in Wisconsin, I think differently," Oda said. "Returns showed the Gensui has sokojikara [depth and strength]. Here is a saint and philosopher who has not been home in years, nor campaigned for himself - and yet he comes in second to Stassen. ... I view the Wisconsin primaries as an indica tion that the Supreme Commander has more than a good chance of becoming President...
Collard was so enthusiastic that in 1918 he was called as a witness by the Government's Channel Tunnel Committee. They wet-blanketed the idea but did not daunt Collard...
None of this, however, will daunt Count Coudenhove-Kalergi. A famous name in Europe, the Count can be relied upon to drum up much sentiment for his ideas in the federalist U.S. He has a quite obvious appeal for internationalists. But he also has a program that can legitimately interest the isolationists. For his federalized Europe could presumably get along without the New World. The isolationists would like that just as much as the Europeans...