Word: goode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approaches his subject with scholarly caution, raised his sights from the present, and tried to see what the U.S. would be like 30 years from now. His report was bottomed on sober statistics and hedged by careful qualifications -but it all added up to a bright vision. The good things in store for the U.S. in 1980, Professor Slichter wrote in the November Atlantic Monthly, will make the prosperity of the 1940s seem pale and austere...
...Medical services of all kinds will be used far more than today. The proportion of people completing high school and spending some time in college will rise ... A nation on a 30-hour week will have more opportunity to pursue a multitude of arts . . . The chance is good that the arts will flourish in the United States as never before in the history of the world...
Dulles was campaigning forthrightly on the proposition that just about everything in the Fair Deal was wrong. His good friend Governor Thomas E. Dewey had never been so bold: he had given his approval to most items of Harry Truman's program before saying that he could do them better. Republican Senator Irving Ives had been elected as a liberal, especially sympathetic to much of the New Deal's labor legislation. But, making his first plunge into county-level politics, conservative, 61-year-old Senator John Foster Dulles could not be accused of "me-tooing...
...York City, which enjoys a good show, was having a pleasantly lively time in the mayoralty campaign. Neither greying, genial Democratic Mayor Bill O'Dwyer, nor his Republican-Liberal-Fusion challenger, Newbold Morris, could find any real excuse to call each other hard names. The Communist Party's favorite Congressman, shrill little Vito Marcantonio, had no real chance. There was no real issue. But the candidates were cartwheeling through a sort of political acrobatic contest, which provided wholesome free entertainment for young...
...Dwyer held to his attitude of grand disdain. He admitted that a few wire rooms were running, but he had 300 cops chasing bookies and could not in good conscience spare more for the job. The taxpayers' children, he intoned, had to be helped across dangerous streets. As for the slums-the Republican, Morris, had only recently discovered them. "I," said the ex-Cop O'Dwyer, "lived in them...