Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damaged Goods. Pyrene Manufacturing Co. (fire extinguishers) bought ads in newspapers all over the U.S. to deliver a solemn warning. It had just discovered that 500,000 small extinguishers it had sold might not put out fires. Reason: the chemical had gone bad. Advised Pyrene: have them replaced without charge...
The conversion was by no means complete. Mr. Truman may have thought that he was in the middle of the road, and privately he often talked convincingly as if that was where he wanted to find himself. But whenever he opened his mouth to deliver one of the messages prepared...
What he promises but doesn't deliver (in either volume) is a "human" Madison. Perhaps no biographer could. The Father of the Constitution was once described as a man who never said or did an indiscreet thing. And though Brant is scornful of those who have established his hero...
Gideon's Army was on the march. Henry Wallace's third party, as yet nameless and pennonless (but not penniless), bivouacked briefly last week on Capitol Hill. Wallace had come, at his own request, to deliver an attack on the European Recovery Program before the House Foreign Affairs...
At Union his reception was cool. But soon his classes were among the most crowded in the seminary. He moved from class to class surrounded by disputatious students, who soon called him "Reinie." In 1939, Niebuhr became the fifth American* to be invited to deliver the Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh...