Word: erect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swivel chair, like a young girl at her first matinee. Only when she leaned forward did the tips of her tiny, open-toed pumps touch the floor. On her left, Franklin Roosevelt, puffing at a cigaret, lounged easily in an oversize armchair. On her right, Eleanor Roosevelt sat stiffly erect, one hand on Madame Chiang's chair in a protective gesture...
...United States is ever visited by a second Alexis de Tocqueville or another Lord Bryce, he will find ample subject matter in the mores of American journalism. One of the most inexplicable events in that profession is the case with which recognized experts in one field soon erect themselves into seers of knowledge in general. The sports columnists have led the parade to omniscience; first it was Ring Lardner, then Westbrook Pegler. Since the war began, Boston's own Bill Cunningham has been proclaimed the master of morale and the captain of the captions. Now Ely Culbertson, of all people...
...lasts beyond 1943. What then? Can't you do something, America, you with your 100,000,000 ex-Europeans who have had 160 years of democratic experience? Your isolation is over. Take the responsibility! Develop a plan which will give us a chance to stand erect when we come out of the caves; a chance to be human beings again, free, democratic...
REMIND US IN DUE TIME TO ERECT A STATUE OF VICTORY IN TOULON HARBOR IN MEMORY OF THOSE IMMORTAL TRENCH PATRIOTS...
Millennium. In Topeka, the Community Christmas Tree Committee decided not to erect the annual tree for the city's underprivileged children because there were practically no underprivileged children...