Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HAPPy days are HERE again! THUH skies aBOVE are CLEAR again! Let us SING a SONG of CHEER again! HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN...
...will march forward to the battery of microphones, blink smilingly into the aurora of flashbulbs, raise his hands in delightful helplessness to quiet the throng-that man had probably not dared to let his thoughts wander so extravagantly last week. But chances were good that he had already felt a tremor of premonition...
...role as a leading Democratic foreign policy spokesman. Bob Meyner was in his Trenton statehouse wondering how to get overseas next year in an effort to overcome admitted shortcomings in the foreign policy field ("I can't afford to go on my own hook, and if I let somebody pay for me, people will say, 'Who the hell does this guy think...
...leader-in-action. Pat Brown, who needs to get himself known outside California, was off on a get-acquainted tour, visiting such elder Democrats as Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman and Harry Truman. Stu Symington was vacationing in Puerto Rico; his strategy has been to keep quiet and let his competitors knock one another off. And Jack Kennedy was campaigning in Alaska-just as he has been campaigning ever since 1956 in a marathon effort to make friends and influence people...
...keeping with diocesan practice, there was no eulogy. James Michael Curley had lived a long life, improved the lot of many, been genuinely loved by many, and presumably he had died in God's grace. But it was better, looking back over his 60-year political career, to let the gentle shawl of legend disguise the hard shape of history...