Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predicted Teamster Boss Dan Tobin. "Uncle Dan," who was chairman of the Democratic labor committee in Franklin Roosevelt's first three terms, was less certain about the Democratic nominee. In an 1,800-word article on 1944 in his house organ, The International Teamster, not once did he mention Franklin Roosevelt's name. Said he: "The Democrats do not have a great number of very strong men who would appeal to the people...
...Name. The son, brother, husband and father of schoolteachers. Judge Alexander nevertheless did not spare the teaching profession. He continued: ". . . Much delinquency is taught in ... schools. . . . Some [teachers] have tested out techniques worthy of mention. ... Johnny didn't smell like a rose. Even a bad head cold wouldn't have availed you. He really didn't smell bad on purpose. He was a dull normal, his mother probably a moron. When verbal warnings failed to beget the desired attar of roses, teacher moved him four seats from the nearest pupil and by gesture and innuendo...
...well-worn theme. An American tank loses its formation and, in subsequent wanderings across the Saharan wastes, picks up an English medical officer, a Fighting Frenchman, a Negro veteran of at least a dozen wars and insurrections, an Italian soldier, a German officer, and others too numerous to mention, including, eventually about a gross of assorted Nazi prisoners. The process obviously involves plenty of blood and thunder, and the picture works itself up to a well-planned climax, leaving everyone satisfied...
Says the Crusade handbook: "Do not argue or criticize-express your opinion. Do not get up petitions-write personal letters. Do not mention the Crusade-it is not necessary to mention The Methodist Church; we are not organizing another 'pressure group' but expressing the convictions of Christian citizens. Above all, do not copy anything from the Crusade literature-do not use the Crusade phrases- avoid trite phrases and Biblical, 'pious,' poetic, figurative and similar expressions. . . . Stick to the simple propositions: we are against isolationism; we favor collaboration; we want a fair, just, righteous and lasting peace...
...make no secret of their alarm. Douglas' attitude is direct, as usual. On his desk sits a small pottery model of a skunk, which many visitors instantly link mentally with the colloquial axiom: "Never get in a squirting match with a skunk." It is said that when visitors mention labor problems to him, he merely points at the skunk...