Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...censored strips, the Senate needed one vote to defeat a bill to put Congress on the air ("and you know what'll happen to us if the American people can actually hear us!"). The Senate's only hope was hideous, snaggle-toothed Senator Phogbound of Dogpatch, "th' most ignorant commoonity in th' country." Phogbound's price was $2,000,000 to build a Phogbound University, "to be known as P.U." He got the appropriation (argued one Senator: "It isn't as though it were my money-it's just taxpayers' money...
...stranger, who feels that the war is over now and that people should be sociable again, irritatingly insists on wearing enigmatic checkered pants. At last his hideous secret comes out: he was not only a Union soldier, but a schoolmaster to boot. Ultimately, of course, he unmasks the barn-burners, pacifies MacBean, and gets the girl...
...adjectives ranging from "hideous" to "unflattering," have been applied by Radcliffe undergraduates to the new skirt lengths. Puppies and strong words to the contrary, however, 30 out of 30 Cliffedwellers admitted yesterday that they are buying the knee-covering skirts and dropling hemlines on the old ones earthwards...
...that delighted a small circle of Christian intellectuals. His first novel, War in Heaven, told of a cops-&-robbers chase through modern England which followed when somebody turned up with the Holy Grail. The Williams books inspired Lewis to write a trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) dealing with the forces of Good and Evil at war on the planets of the solar system. One element common to all these stories: the villain of the piece is always a scientist...
...confusion of statesmanship and politics, leading to such asinine Republican challenges as. "No tax relief, no European relief." Sinking back comfortably into their trust in man's supposed basic selfishness, these Congressional leaders based their political hopes on a fantastic combination of a brave, new isolationism and a hideous fear of Russia. But while a great deal of bumbling has been done about communism, labor unions, and government controls, none of which are especially dangerous to the country's welfare, time has been passing right along...