Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government's industrial policy during the war and the failure to provide the people with sufficient food at reasonable prices, it has failed in vital matters affecting the nation in this crisis." Present at the conference was moderate Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru. When a United Nations enthusiast like Sir Tej supports such a statement, things must be worse than usual...
...surface, the campaign in Ohio had been listless. But when short, swarthy, forceful Congressman Stephen M. Young, a New Deal enthusiast and the best Democratic vote-getter in the Buckeye State, went home just before election he heard rumblings that jarred his political ears. Farmers grumbled about the Administration's clamping down on farm prices, women complained of drafting 18-and 19-year-olds, citizens everywhere were impatient with the handling of the war. Steve Young found many Democrats with a don't-care attitude; he knew before election day that he was beaten...
...story, a Midwestern ex-Rhodes Scholar comes home, after a year in blitzed London, to manufacture an incendiary bomb that will instantly burn up anything it hits. At home he finds a group of pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists. Despite a great deal of angry talk, the young bomb enthusiast manufactures no bombs, burns up nothing except his boss and the daughter of the chairwoman of the local America Forever Committee. His name is not Reality but Jimmie Bailey, and, unlike the Fifth Horseman, he never enlists with the other four...
...pieces exist because of an idea of rotund-faced, baldish Conductor Andre Kostelanetz. As he explains it, "I want people to get the message of what democracy is, what we are fighting for." So first he telephoned Jerome Kern in Beverly Hills. Kern, who has been a Mark Twain enthusiast since boyhood (the first book he ever owned was Huckleberry Finn), jumped at the idea of a Mark Twain portrait. Copland wanted to do Walt Whitman in music, but was persuaded to tackle Lincoln. Virgil Thomson was best suited to his particular assignments. Since 1928 he has been composing musical...
...wowser is human. The Australian slang dictionary defines him (or her) as "a puritanical enthusiast, a bluestocking, a drab-souled Philistine haunted by the mockery of others." What the U.S. soldiers and their Empire mates have to say about him would burn holes in a postman's sack...