Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jabberwock he is hunting, a college fraternity, last seen some years ago at Williams College, left a stain upon this editor's blotter which must be purged by vitriol . . . Hurling three columns of ketchup at the group which inferiorated him . . he retires from the field, having given space long filled by eminent philosophers and editors to a personal and trivial hurling of tomatoes in the essence...
...Harry Truman done it? The inference was almost inevitable: to improve his waning political fortunes. He must have hoped that, by such a spotlighted and dramatic gesture, he could catch the imagination of the people and push back the overwhelming odds against his reelection. His attempted action was shocking because it showed that he had no conception whatever of the difference between the President of the United States and a U.S. politician...
...good news. Conservative membership had risen from 1,200,000 to 2,250,000 from December 1947 to June 1948. Recent public opinion polls had shown that the Tories were ahead. But the delegates realized that they were still far from home. Said one: "The tide is turning. We must harness it to our projects." Said another: "But what are our projects...
Even to live up to the 19-point odds against them, the Crimson must show a new and better defense in the line, while to make it a ball game the offensive unit must regain and surpass its Columbia form...
...most specialized in the world, one which demands a mode of life more exacting and methodical than a civilian profession could hope to be. To expect a thoroughly liberal college to produce a body of men espable of maintaining the standards of duty and leadership which every Army must have at its base would be as absurd as expecting an Army camp to produce scholars and artists...