Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Stadium felt and smelled like a crowded Turkish bath. A thermometer near the ringside, under the furious glow of the ring lights, read 88°. A crowd that paid $422,918 to get in (double the take of any previous indoor fight) was packed shoulder to shoulder. The organ pumped out the National Anthem, Zale stood at attention like everybody else, but Rocky Graziano, the reform-school graduate from Manhattan's Lower East Side, went right on dancing and sparring in his corner...
...innumerable tenors, she was once again deep in the U.S. heart and high on the hit parade. Last week, for the second week, the late Fred Fisher's 1913 sentimental tune was the nation's jukebox favorite. Its revival had started with the Harmonicats, a Midwest mouth-organ trio, who recorded it, and a Chicago disc jockey named Eddie Hubbard, who plugged their recording into popularity...
...Moscow, for instance, there are eight daily papers and each is supposed to represent a definite state organism. Pravda is the voice of the party's Central Committee; Izvestia, the organ of the Government. Red Star is the Army newspaper; Red Fleet, the Navy newspaper...
C.I.O. President Philip Murray sounded the deepest organ tones. When he arose to address a jampacked veto rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, his voice trembled with bitterness. The bill was "dastardly," "dangerously provocative," a "foul brew," he roared. "Our liberties are threatened by reactionary monopoly, driving us on the first long step toward domestic fascism. . . . From here henceforward, if this bill becomes law, the organized labor movement is on the defensive in this country. . . . Let us return to private life the backers of this ugly measure...
...reception for Strong-Man Perón's wife (see LATIN AMERICA). Another is the regime's conviction that it enjoys the blessings of the Vatican. At High Mass last Sunday in Madrid's biggest Jesuit church, just before the elevation of the Host, I heard organ and choir strike up Franco's national anthem while the congregation stood at attention or sank to its knees...