Word: outlying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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1. "The radio craze...will die out in time."
24. "I will not sell miracle cures... I did not see Elvis... The truth is not out there."
Though the national economy remained in a depressed state until the war broke out, the massive programs of the New Deal had stopped the precipitous slide and provided an economic floor for tens of millions of Americans. "We aren't on relief anymore," one woman noted with pride. "My husband...
When Germany invaded Russia in 1941, Roosevelt once again defied prevailing opinion. To the isolationists, the invasion of Russia confirmed the wisdom of keeping America out of the war. America should rejoice, they argued, in watching two hated dictatorships bleed each other to death. Within the government, Roosevelt's military...
3. "[He] rose out of murky obscurity and carried his country with him up & up into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world."