Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Organized labor took a long look at the election returns and knew definitely that an era had passed. The days of running to Washington for almost anything it wanted were over. The assurance of being bailed out by Government when it got into trouble was gone...
...altruistic desire to speed that improvement. Similarly, in the past decade of the "thirties, the American people were forced by depression to solve common problems through common action, to see the social consequences of individual actions and to become mindful of the forgotten man, the little fellow, In each era, successively culminating in the new Freedom of Wilson and the New Deal of Roosevelt-there was an optimistic, morally charged striving for social ends by individuals...
Coleman Hawkins, who brought the saxophone through almost all of its agonizing stages of development as a hot instrument from its first bicycle horn-like groping right down to the present era of squealing reeds and cyclone phrasing, heads the list. He will do battle with Illinois Jacquet, one of the younger fry, whose playing measured by the decibel and the foot pound is unexcelled...
...moves of new GOP leaders, Representative Joe Martin has announced intentions to reduce income taxes by 20 per cent, and a consequent paring of appropriations for all government projects, including an Army and Navy engaged in vital Occupation duties. Further Republican proposals in this revival of the Crystal Palace era of laissez-faire include shelving of the minimum-wage bill and President Truman's measure to establish a Federal health insurance program, both of which were introduced in the last Congressional session...
...clothes were expensive, they were also handsomer and of better quality. The uniform of the last postwar era had been the sack dress and cloche hat of the '20s. The trademarks of 1946 were elegance and variety; anything was in high fashion, so long as it had a splendid look. (One Manhattan store, with perfect justification, used a reproduction of John Singer Sargeant's 1884 Portrait of Madame X as an index to current style.) While the thrill lasted, U.S. women were going to be taken out and admired-if their husbands could find a tuxedo, that...