Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week all the major candidates were in the field. The whistles of railway engines wailed across the country and the harumphs of speakers sounded from coast to coast. As the 1948 presidential campaign began, two phenomena became apparent. One was the large crowds which turned out to cheer the dogged little man who (the polls said) couldn't win. The other was the campaign's overall amiability...
...poll sizable votes, were aroused; they were far from amiable, and the issues they raised might be serious enough to cause some permanent political realignments. But between now and election day, those minor voices would recede into a distant, thin scream which would be pretty well drowned out. The major candidates would occupy the center of the stage...
Their friendly battle-assuming that it stayed friendly-was an indication of how things were in the U.S. The major parties, never far apart ideologically, only divide violently in moments of great, inner stress. The simple and uncomplicated issue of 1948-whether or not it was time to clean house-was a good sign of a generally united...
...Dexter, 40 miles from Des Moines, the President left the train. In a 37-auto motorcade he traveled to the Widow Lois Agg's 160-acre farm. There he delivered the week's major assault on the enemy...
Joyce Gary is an Irish-born and English-educated novelist whose work deserves to be more widely read than it is. Unlike so many of his contemporaries who mount the novel as if it were a rostrum, Cary works in the major tradition of English novel writing. He tells a vivid story, creates characters as credible as if they were stepping on one's toes, and uses the English language with beauty and wit. Why he is not therefore a favorite on this side of the Atlantic is something of a mystery...