Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progressive Party is thus a hybrid party-its ranks manned by the generous, the idealistic, the disaffected, the independent; its real bosses, who quietly, adroitly lead it by the nose, a small group of Communists and Communist-liners. And as the hybrid figurehead of this aggregation, adored by the majority, steered by the minority, walks helpless Henry Wallace...
...Hybrid Corn. Through all these preliminary maneuverings, the man who developed hybrid corn sat in his hotel room, holding court, conferring with his loyal campaign manager, C.B. ("Beany") Baldwin, an old associate from Department of Agriculture days. It was doubtful whether Wallace ever knew for sure just what was going on. It was even more doubtful if the delegates knew...
Basso, whose spiritual home is Communism, pointed with approval to Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe and said the majority of the Italian Socialist leaders were engaged in "a hybrid, inconsequential, incongruous attempt to preserve or gain personal positions...
Stop the Music, a hardy musical hybrid of "Miss Hush" and the Pot o' Gold, is a variation on a well-worked theme. Master of Ceremonies Bert Parks telephones to people chosen at random across the U.S., asks the listener to identify the popular tune then being played. If he can do that he wins a nominal prize and qualifies for a chance at the Mystery Tune, a stumper that sounds tantalizingly familiar. The most recent: Get Out of the Wilderness, vintage 1850, with a marked similarity to The Old Gray Mare. If a listener identifies the Mystery Tune...
They all believe that competition is good for the soul. Competition selects that neurotic hybrid known as "a Crimeed" from the saner strains of College men, and the grim reaper of competitive toil determines his future career as a college journalist...