Word: lot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commented Wisconsin's biggest daily, the conservative Milwaukee Journal (circ. 319,126): "We have a feeling that no one will take Senator McCarthy's question very seriously. Politically, he'd probably do a lot better charging Mr. Evjue with being what he is-a capitalist. It would probably make Mr. Evjue a lot madder...
...Keith S. Grimson, professor of surgery at Duke University, had relieved a lot of peptic ulcers with a combination of tricky operations. But for three years he had been looking for a way to get the same kind of result without surgery. Last week Duke's Grimson announced that he and two associates had succeeded-with a drug called banthine...
Specifically, the executive must "listen to a lot of claptrap from union stewards who are riding him, and face pressure from government officials. After that, the executive must express benign, gentle, persuasive attitudes...
...life, seem to feel no guilt over their lawbreaking. They take real pleasure in the comforts gained by Granger's cut of a bank robbery and budget their ill-gotten hoard as if they had slaved for it. Working on the notion that bank robbers are a likable lot among themselves and get the same pleasure out of their work as any other skilled craftsmen, Director Ray and Scriptwriter Charles Schnee have served up some fine, entertaining scenes. Their best characters: Howard Da Silva as a one-eyed lush who is outraged over the skimpy newspaper coverage...
...impulse, Silvestro buys a ticket to his mother's village in Sicily. When he gets there, his mother is roasting a fish and the smell releases a lot of memories: how his mother's face had once been "young and awe-inspiring"; how, in poverty, they had dined on snails and endives, and relished them; how Silvestro's grandfather, a good Socialist, had also been a good enough Catholic to ride in the St. Joseph's Day parade. When his mother takes Silvestro on her rounds as a practical nurse, Silvestro begins to learn his lesson...