Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just say, "Look, when I need you I'll need you in a hurry and if you're not there it'll sure mess things up." (Appeal to its logic.) To the toast you say, "Please don't burn because you're all the bread I have and I'm hungry." (That has sort of the same effect as "You're the only man in the world for me.") To the lawn, "Drink this delicious water and get green so you'll be prettier than the others." (Things love competition...
...discuss price controls. Said Secretary Snyder: "I have stated many times that I am not in favor of price controls. Nor am I in favor of castor oil. But if I've got an ailment and it's going to save my life, then I'll take...
...Union Rationale's 51% (13% more than in 1944). Even a Duplessis worker shook his head sadly: "Too big, too big." An anti-Duplessist summed it up more bitterly: "That guy's been driving around with a police motorcycle escort and sirens. Now I guess he'll call out the elite guard...
...surprise to grumpy Joe, the master baseball mechanic, who kept saying all along: "We'll be all right. Let me do the worrying." Like any good mechanic, he knew how much horsepower was at his command. The trick was to get the engine tuned up. It took tinkering and time...
...Roosevelts, come down to look after them," Husband ("Dad") Nesbitt blandly told the world. (Mrs. Nesbitt had often baked and cooked on big occasions when F.D.R. was governor of New York.) Mrs. Roosevelt was waiting in the Red Room when the Nesbitts arrived, and she said: "I'll show you over"; and so "we started out together at a trot, the way she always goes about things . . . We kept on bumping into Roosevelts ... I can't recall how many [but] they all seemed glad to be there . . . Then we reached the kitchen, and I tell you my heart...