Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defeated in the 1924 G.O.P. primaries for U.S. Congressman but chosen by party chiefs as the nominee after the man who beat him died. He was chosen as minority leader of Congress in 1939; chosen to preside at the G.O.P. National Convention in 1940 (which he enjoyed) and to run Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign (which he did not enjoy). He was elected Speaker of the House on Jan. 3, 1947. If Harry Truman dies in office, he will become President. In 1939, when the New Deal was popular with Washington newsmen, they nevertheless voted him the best...
...audience settled down to enjoy at least a good laugh. This little scarecrow figure who closed the score before he started to play looked as if he might furnish some fun. But by the end of Act I, they were on their feet, cheering. At 19, Arturo Toscanini had won his first ovation as a conductor...
...Rome's aged brown walls are heavy with garish tapestries-purple, green, red, black election posters, shrieking at the people. (If you want jobs and bread, some land to till, some peace to enjoy, vote Communist; if you believe in God, fear Communisn, hate tyranny, vote Christian Democrat.) I drove to the imposing stone building which houses the U.S. Embassy, talked about the bread and pasta from America which alone have saved Italians from starvation; of the American coal which alone has kept Italy's railways running and its blast furnaces roaring. Would not all these things...
...that can be remedied at 14 Plympton Street tonight when the CRIMSON inaugurates its second annual cartoon competition. Appreciation, good fellowship and much beer await would-be Dave Braeteus who enjoy exposing their works of art to the public gage...
...particularly prone to psychosomatic (mindbody) troubles and chronic illnesses. One big reason is the American yen for "making good." The middle class works especially hard at trying to make good. The constant effort produces strains and tensions (people "feel the necessity to improve their condition, rather than to enjoy their existence"), which in turn produce unhappiness and maladjustments...