Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the city council met to choose a new mayor from among its own members. There was little doubt that the job would go to a Democrat named Albert D. Cash. Cincinnati had not had a Democratic mayor for 35 years, but Bob Taft's powerful Republican machine had slipped a cog in November. Of nine council seats, it had won only four. The rest had been won by a coalition of Democrats and maverick Republicans, flying the banner of Cincinnati's famed reform organization, the Charter Committee. Charlie Taft had led the Charterites...
...this was '48. In its first week, some of the world's people managed to face the new year gaily, many with dull resignation, most in doubt. But they all had one fervent, minimum hope: that this would be a better year than the one just gone...
Under such circumstances, many a businessman kept his fingers crossed on ERP's prospects of success. There was some doubt that enough industrial know-how could be exported to permit devastated nations to supply their share of the goods in world trade. In most European nations industrial efficiency was far below that...
Everything thereafter is sheer anticlimax, as a limp audience is held spell-bound in its seats, asphyxiated by what is without a doubt the worst in a long and dubious series of "Road" vehicles...
There is some doubt that the Wallace movement is a genuine third party movement of the same type as the Populist, Progressive, or early Republican parties. At this point Wallace does not have the support of organized labor, the supposed core of any contemporary rebellion. Nor is there the same widespread discontent that has accompanied other third parties. Not since the Republicans rose from obscurity to power on the issue of slavery has there been a strong third party movement except in times of economic stress. Traditionally third parties have been able to make a good showing only when...