Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gang that's now behind Eisenhower-did this to us in 1940, they explained it was grass roots from the American people.* When the Dewey crowd did it to us . . . in 1948, they explained it was more grass roots. So what we've just seen is the finest grass roots, in the best Willkie and Dewey tradition...
...warned that horrific tales about American TV are not exaggerated: "To sit over there through a three-or four-hour sponsored program is to come under a terrorization of mass suggestion of advertising. I mean this seriously. The American girl, for example, is supposed to be the finest of her kind in the world. She is supposed to be the quintessence of feminine charm. What do advertisers say about her on the radio, on television? I shall put it as gently as I can. She suffers from dandruff, from body odor, from halitosis. I could...
...finest of seed--that of fellowship true...
Both men are expert practitioners of the "throwaway," a device for slurring or racing over the unimportant words in a commercial. This technique was brought to its finest flower by Announcer Ralph Edwards. Explains Stark: "Every sponsor has to put some weasel words in his copy that you've got to learn how to handle. Suppose an announcer has to say: 'If you use Blank face cream you can hope for a more beautiful complexion.' You've got to get that word 'hope' in to keep the lawyers happy, but as much...
...largely by making all the world a rabbit hutch and every man in it his father's brother. His first 17 books of prose and drawings, with their battles between the sexes, their bewildered males running a maze that leads inevitably into another, are the century's finest guidebooks to the schizophrenic ward of modern man's booby hatch. His new one. The Thurber Album, is a gently humorous grab bag of reminiscence, and a tribute to his family, his friends, and the all-but-normal life he knew in Columbus...