Word: dynamo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schizophrenia? A grey-haired, owl-beaked dynamo of a man who rises at 4 a.m. and has never, since the age of eight, doubted his own mission in life, Neutra takes great satisfaction at the advance of modern designing in all fields. His impatience is with those who come to the new faith haltingly. In his softly accented English he complains...
...bright light over the death chair. A moth fluttered about it. Sheridan's weak blue eyes followed the moth intently as it circled the light. Then the mask came down over his face, guards deftly snapped the electrodes on his arms and legs, and the dynamo started up with a low whine. At 11:11 p.m. the prison physician put his stethoscope to Sheridan's chest. "This man is dead," he said in a flat voice...
...people want constructive action coupled with campaign promises. In the personality and record of Hubert H. Humphrey the people of Minnesota saw the dynamo of action needed for the fulfilling of their dream-the human-welfare state . . . They wanted a clean-up on the housing mess, the health problem, the tax situation, the labor snarl and half a dozen other national stumbling blocks...
...week the award committees were polishing up the citations for next month's announcement of the 1948 winners. Nobody was telling, yet, who had won-and medical men were busily speculating. One who knows for sure who the winners will be is Mrs. Mary Lasker, vice president and dynamo behind the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Mrs. Lasker puts up the cash, but the winners are picked by three organizations: the American Public Health Association, the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, the Planned Parenthood Federation...
Lucky Forward is peppered with similar charges, none of them convincingly sustained. Says Allen: "Patton was the sparkplug and dynamo of the war in the ETO. The full record of his genius and far-flung impact on operations still is entombed behind an official wall of jealous silence and so-called 'classified documents...