Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news of Truman's slump sent a fresh wave of confidence surging through Republican ranks. It plunged Democrats into corresponding gloom. It also raised many questions sure to be asked often between now and November. How accurate are the polls ? Is their sampling really scientific? Can the result of elections be predicted on a slide rule? Do polls follow the voters or do voters follow the polls? Are the polls, in short, leading democracy by its too gullible nose...
...hushed Bogotá, the delegates to the International Conference of American States were ready to talk seriously. Fresh in their minds was the Commie-aided insurrection which had blasted them out of Bogotá's Capitolio, endangered their lives, killed 1,200 Colombians. Owlish Colombian Foreign Minister Zuleta Angel rose quietly. "We will now consider the question of democracy in the Americas," he said...
...have failed, on the whole, to become truly creative artists but rather have been content, in the main, to remain little more than glassblowers, huffing and puffing and blowing up slender ideas-their own or others' -into some sort of shape for the screen. What has happened to fresh; honest, vital, original writing for the screen...
...Czechs are the unhappiest people in Europe, and their sadness is fresh, tearful and utterly pathetic. One of the few old friends who came to see me came only because, she said, 'I'm in so much trouble already that seeing you doesn't matter.' An Action Committee had put her out of her job with an export firm and her husband had lost his with the Ministry. She had been informed that they would be given new jobs 'according to their physical abilities. Another friend, a professor, tearfully expressed what is perhaps the underlying...
...necking-room free of cops & robbers; for mother & father, an evening out without the expense of a baby sitter or the trouble of parking; for the aged, infirm or overweight, the chance to see a movie in comfort. For everyone, there are snack bars (with car service), rest rooms, fresh air and, in season, mosquitoes. And proprietors are still innovating: last week, one Tennessee drive-in added a while-you-wait laundry service...