Word: jettison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always the same question: Is it a good risk? In all the U. S. today there is only one man whose power is greater: Franklin Roosevelt. The President can force Jones to resign at any moment. But many men say that public opinion would never let the President jettison Jesse, that Sinbad Roosevelt is fated always to carry Old-Man-of-the-Sea-Jones...
...proposing "some beatings-up" for those who read the French-language Swiss press. "These are the prophets of disaster, the professional alarmists, the convinced pessimists, the empty brains and the sour stomachs who still exist among us here and there." Referring to Benito Mussolini's recent order to jettison "the remaining petty bourgeois ballast," Popolo di Roma suggested that nothing remained but to begin...