Word: outworn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aged cars and outworn farm machinery, long parked on flat acres to make them unhealthy for landing enemy aircraft, had been removed for salvage. Stout wires hung alongside broad highways for the same purpose had disappeared. Plate glass was replacing boarded-up shop windows. The Great Western Railway had restored 510 station names erased during the invasion scare. Trams, busses, subways and autos were removing some shades from their lights. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard called for abolition of the blackout...
This stunning turnabout was official. William Norman, executive secretary of the New Jersey Communist Party, made the statement in the Daily Worker, Manhattan's mouthpiece for the U. S. Communist Party. Cooed he: ". . . Outworn conceptions, if carried over to other historical periods, can prove of incalculable harm to the cause of progress and the chief issue today, the nation's war. Such a misconception continues to exist with regard to Frank Hague and so-called Hagueism...
...America's great men of the Revolution, Jefferson was the one who was attuned most perfectly to its meaning: that men, for the first time in history, should be set free from the outworn restraints of feudalism and primogeniture, allowed to work out their own destiny without exploitation by government. He did not believe, as his words in the Declaration of Independence seemed to say, that all men were equally good; he did believe that all men were born worthy of an equal chance. Then the U.S. would move forward, to vistas beyond the imagination, under the leadership...
...party that has drifted along on outworn policies for 20 years, and has been, at best, a bumbling wartime parliamentary opposition, the Conservatives face a difficult task in regaining the Dominion's confidence. As Progressive-Conservatives under "Honest Jack" Bracken they have what may be their last opportunity. Party leaders expected to draft a platform that would: 1) attack the Liberal Party where it is most vulnerable (pussyfooting on basic war problems); 2) woo enough diverse support to capitalize on the expected post-war reaction to the present Liberal regime, As a starter, the party approved a four-point...
Even in those early days Maria's influence was potent. Editors often were told by Sam that "Ria says" this or that ought to be done; they did it. She heard that the outworn U.S.S. Oregon, relic of the Spanish-American War, was to be decommissioned by the Navy. Said she: it ought to be brought to Portland, turned into a shrine. Soon the massive battleship was anchored in the Willamette River in downtown Portland...