Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They smothered the bill with amendments which would make the draft a ghastly joke. The House eagerly adopted most of them. Cried Missouri's Dewey Short: "You have perhaps not beheaded this monster but you have dehorned it . . . Why don't you be honest and defeat...
...organism without a memory. Fifty years ago its five boroughs-Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx-were joined into one big city. But most of its citizens are vaguely surprised at plans for celebrating this golden anniversary-starting with a monster parade up Fifth Avenue next week. They leave this sort of historic memory to Philadelphia, at which they jeer; to Boston, which they pity; Or to Atlanta, a place near Miami, and where the Civil War was fought. New York is hypnotized by the present-which, after all, is equipped with television and a big bull market...
...worried radioman thinks that television is "a Frankenstein monster that will destroy its creator." But if the monster's rivals can't lick it, they are determined to join it. The industries that have most to fear are the ones giving it the most support...
Hewes also asked for curtailment of "monster industries...
Remembering last year's 23 to 2 massacre at the hands of the resurgent scribes, Blimpton disclosed that he had foraged the monster during a recent sortie into Widener Library. "He'll be great for double-headers," winked the musty old Dutch Tiler, as his rookie phenom masked a fast quadruple take behind a two-faced goatee...