Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these blondes (Bonita Granville) presumably arouses the dormant man in young Hardy. The other two, gold-digging twins (the Wilde sisters), arouse the adolescent beast in him. In cutbacks Mother Hardy (Fay Holden) is seen wandering around in her nightgown and Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) gets tonsillitis. Andy finally untangles himself and is last shown imploring Cinemactress Granville to nurse her cold. Meaning: he has grown...
...long-dormant Willkiemen finally began to strike back. On the eve of this week's meeting of the G.O.P. National Committee, Vermont's granite-jawed Governor William H. Wills went on a national radio hookup to hit hard at those GOPsters whose first aim in 1944 is to stop Wendell Willkie...
...some time, certainly, many business thinkers agreed, the backed-up purchasing power would soak up whatever was offered. Thus reconversion could be pulled through. This dormant purchasing power would release an unprecedented flood of consumer durable goods-houses and household equipment, television sets and autos and private planes...
...toughened by training. This was their final physical, which War Department regulations require within 48 hours of embarkation. A few men were motioned out of line: hernia or hemorrhoids make a man unfit for combat. Sometimes a heart or a lung case turns up. Sometimes a mental case, dormant in training...
...weariness, hatred and hope whipped the people on. Powerful voices lashed at them. Their own republicans and radicals, long dormant or underground, called for peace and liberty. Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill summoned them to yield swiftly lest their land "be seared and scarred and blackened from one end to the other." The Allied armies spoke through General Dwight Eisenhower: "You can have peace immediately and peace under honorable conditions. . . . Your part is to cease immediately any assistance to German military forces." But from the palace at Rome, where Benito Mussolini's onetime partners struggled to hold...