Word: gumption
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told in a despairing cinematic monotone almost as dismal as its title. A beached merchant sailor (Burt Lancaster) cracks the skull of a London pubkeeper, for no very good reason, and escapes the bobbies by climbing into the bedroom of a prim nurse (Joan Fontaine). With more kindness than gumption, she concludes that a young man so desperately weary is worth protecting. From the moment Nurse Fontaine makes this silly decision, her fate is hitched to the criminal's inevitable decline & fall. So is that of Robert Newton, a sinister cockney witness to the murder, who finally gets done...
...intrepid band of ladies, full of git & gumption, descended on Seneca Falls, N.Y., to declare a rebellion against "the repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman." These injuries, they said, had as their direct object the establishment of an "absolute tyranny" over woman...
Last week, 200 women met in the Labor Department's auditorium in Washington to commemorate that first Women's Rights Convention. Every important U.S. women's organization was represented. But the old git & gumption was no longer there...
...grit and by gumption, the British had got off to a head start on the South Atlantic haul. All they had last week was a temporary permit from Perón to fly into Argentina, six serviceable Lancastrians (carrying only 13 passengers on the long Atlantic hop), and a staff that was ex-R.A.F. But the only point-to-point competition for B.S.A.A.'s 55-hour, $705 service so far came from Pan American's $921 dogleg via New York...
...Americans were astounded, hurt. The Russians realized that they had gone too far. Partly in order to appease the U.S. and Great Britain, they abrogated the neutrality pact with Japan several days ahead of the expected time. Then, immediately after President Roosevelt's death. U.S. Ambassador Harriman showed gumption, convinced Stalin that he had made a serious mistake, and paved the way for President Truman's firm "invitation" to Molotov. The effects on the Polish negotiations were instantly apparent...