Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words, movements, decisions. To a U. S. gnawed by anxiety at the overwhelming, catastrophic fulfillment of Spenglerian prophecies, to a nation wondering whether its morale, mind, muscles have been too much enfeebled (by years of cynicism, of tolerance without discrimination) to fight now for the things democracy holds dear; to such a worrying, mistrustful, anxious country the answer will come clear only if Franklin Roosevelt acts boldly to forfend the crisis piled on crisis, if he boldly, surely chooses among the variety of desperate choices, if he strongly decides, and strongly acts...
...brief parting from those dear...
...eight girls sleeping in a single room. They eat boiled cabbage, bean soup, a few other vegetables, often suffer from acute undernourishment. They do their own laundry, are awakened by bugles at 5 a.m. in order to make the most of daylight, save electricity. Having given up tennis-dear to undergraduates' hearts-because balls and rackets come high, they have adopted as favorite games Chinese boxing, soccer. And despite Japan and the hardships of the great migration, Chinese universities today have 40,000 students, biggest enrollment in China's history...
Mississippians reckoned that their Governor's attack would cost him dear in sympathy and votes. But Editor Sullens also had something to regret. He had been scooped on his own story. The Daily News went to press before it all happened...
...mind on the two most exciting spring games (baseball and politics), Prairie Editor William Allen White, Republican, turned to Democrat Eleanor Roosevelt during a dinner in her honor, declared: "My dear, I don't care if he runs for the third or fourth term so long as he lets you run the bases...