Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealth was not the whole explanation. There were all sorts of signs that the country had been moving, amid the smoke and sound of great events, into a new kind of era. Many a citizen had assumed that the U.S., having experienced the century's second world war and its second era of Democratic Administration, would automatically run through a kind of repeat performance of the 1920s. Actually, the dissimilarities between the two periods were striking...
...permanent basis--until then it had needed yearly renewals of power--and kept it going until the Republican sweep in 1946. Then J. Parnell Thomas took the sacred trust. Thomas had been Dics' right-hand man on the committee ever since its creation. As a Republican in the era of Roosevelt, Thomas had waited patiently for his day, and by the time of his accession he had learned so much from his chairman that he was actually able to out-Dies Dies...
...Great Scottl" cried the Peer of the Era, "I think if we Lunn Shelly fast we'll beat Detar out of them. We'll Vinson, never Feir...
...era transcended haberdashery. It was more, too, than a tricky series of plays that make the 1948 edition of the varsity football team the most interesting to watch in at least a decade...
...last 100 years, Bean concludes that 1946 was the statistical rock-bottom vote for the Democratic Party, below which the Democrats will not sink. In fact he adds that 1948 is actually the beginning of a new ebb tide for the G.O.P. and the start of another Democratic era. For support he points to the Congressional by-elections, the mayoralty races, and polls of 1947, all of which swung toward the Democrats and seemed to contradict the long-standing prediction of A. M. Schlesinger, Sr. that the U.S. is in for a Conservative era...