Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, there were the usual miasmal patches of gloom: the desperate financial plight of the British, the menace of Communism in the Far East. Washington worried that the U.S. public too easily put these problems out of mind, or wished them away. But it was human nature to delegate worry. And Americans have never had much capacity for sustaining gloom. Besides, there was a chance that the world, in the long run, was not going to hell...
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, back from a trip around the East, had discovered that people "had an abiding faith in the soundness of our business economy." Last winter's decline of U.S. business had been interrupted. Manufacturers' orders for May and June had gone up 8%; job layoffs had dropped to their lowest rate since last November; the cost of living also dropped, if only an imperceptible...
...high good spirits at the way things had gone. Said he: "The Democratic Party is a national party, and not a sectional party any more. The tail no longer wags the dog." He boasted that the Democrats had won the election "without New York, without the industrial East and without the Solid South. And I am prouder of that than anything that ever happened to me." He added: "That doesn't mean that we are not inviting the industrial East and the Solid South and all the rest of the country to join the party of the people...
...Weather Bureau meteorologists spotted the glowering, doughnut-shaped lady far out at sea, east of the Bahamas, early last week. They nicknamed her "Bessie's Hurricane." Red and black hurricane flags went up along the Florida coast. Fishing smacks and yachts scudded for home ports. Floridians methodically, almost casually, shuttered their homes, secured everything that could move, filled bathtubs with drinking and cooking water, got out candles and kerosene lamps...
Connie, who was born at East Brookfield, Mass, in 1862, the same year as the Battle of Antietam, got into organized baseball (as a catcher) during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur. He became a big-league manager (for the Pittsburgh Pirates) four years before Admiral Dewey sank the Spanish fleet at Manila. In his 49 years in Philadelphia he won nine pennants (the last in 1931) and five World Series, trained a roster of greats whose names still make old fans' eyes gleam-Rube Waddell, Chief Bender, Frank ("Home Run") Baker, Eddie Collins, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, Jimmy...