Word: godsends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was originally a worthless minority of four anti-Plan E votes on the City Council now looms as the strongest group. The unexpected fratricide among reformists has proved a strategic godsend to the men intent on discrediting Plan E and proportional representation in the eyes of the electorate. PR forces a candidate before the entire city for re-election instead of allowing him the relative security of a small well-organized Ward. Such a plan constitutes a direct menace to professional politicos like Sullivan, Foley, Sennott, and Neville. Their political futures demand an inoperative government and a continuing stalemate...
...roars. The catch line is Barker's trademark-and his contribution to the language. During the war small British ships used the words as a warning against U-boats. And in the thousand irritations of civilian life in postwar Britain, the foolish phrase has proved a good-natured godsend...
...over now, but in certain South American capitals, determined Nazis are still plotting and spying. However this state of affairs may affect U.S. security, it is a godsend to moviegoing fans of Alfred Hitchcock, who is always at his best with spies. Thriller-expert Hitchcock takes his time about uncorking his thrills. Moving at a casual, almost leisurely pace, he waits until he is certain of a hard, tight grip on his audience. Then he runs away with...
Shaw & Larkin. One day a friend told him about Bernard Shaw: "the cleverest Irishman the world knows, Sean. A wit of wonder. A godsend to men who try to think." Another day he listened to Jim Larkin talk at Liberty Hall in Dublin-about the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, the "red flag rather than the green banner...
News is always tremendously important to American boys far from home, but our Tokyo edition found its news-hungriest audience among the prisoners, long cut off from any word of the world outside the barbed-wire. Said Chaplain R. S. Waldrop: "These copies are a Godsend, for these men are as hungry for news as they are for food and medical aid." A B-29 crew man shot down in a big fire raid last spring had a different angle...