Word: dozing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kansas' kindly Republican Arthur Capper has sat in the U.S. Senate for 29 years -longer than any other member of his party.* Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations. By virtue of his long service, he is chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee and ranking majority member, after Arthur Vandenberg, of the Foreign Relations Committee...
...Connor's stories are set in small Irish towns where good-natured, bumbling provincials doze through their days in even rhythms, scarcely touched by the frenetic spleen of cosmopolitan existence, and only occasionally shaken into surprised awareness of life's complexities. While these neat tales unfold, Author O'Connor remains in the background, rarely moralizing...
...occasion: one of six consecutive evening meetings addressed by such outstanding religious liberals as Dr. John Haynes Holmes and Hungary's Bishop Alexander Szent-Ivanyi. At this Unitarian equivalent of a "preaching mission," tall, 52-year-old Liberal van Paassen gave his staid Bostonian audience no opportunity to doze. If liberalism is indeed the devil, the devil is what he gave them. For a full hour and a quarter he sawed the air and pounded the pulpit in defense of human progress and the early perfectibility of man. Excerpts...
Meanwhile, in a corner of the deserted Security Council chamber, in front of a loudspeaker relaying the meeting next door, sat China's neat, dignified Wellington Koo. He was deep in the slumber of an oldtimer who has learned to doze discreetly through such occasions...
Henry Wallace bothers the British experts. They know he is sympathetic to their case, but when he closes his eyes and seems to doze, the British get uneasy. Old Washington hands could tell them that when Wallace falls into this trance-like attitude it really indicates intense interest...