Word: declaiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreman, but I'm not too big a shot to move the box, or to shovel manure if it helps win the war!" and move it himself? If he'd done that, he wouldn't have given the "worker" a chance to "declaim for 45 minutes on nis 'rights' " and he would have set an example which might have had a favorable effect on the workers under his jurisdiction. No doubt, the worker was a skunk, but what sort of animal was the foreman, that he couldn't meet such an easy challenge...
...great debating days before Pearl Harbor, isolationist critics of President Roosevelt liked to declaim: "How would you like your own sons to go to war?" Last week all four Roosevelt sons were deep in the war on many fronts-and doing well...
...down his Modern European History text and leaned back, yawning, in the armchair. He closed his eyes and sighed. History could never be the same since that day last spring when he had heard that booming voice declaim for the last time, "Gentlemen, the Middle Ages were slow, slow, inconceivably slow...