Word: parlous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Statistically, Lawrence, Mass, was in parlous shape. Lawrence is a textile town (it makes more worsted than any other U.S. city); this winter some mills' production had been off as much as 40%. More than 20,000 of Greater Lawrence's 52,077 workers were listed last week as unemployed...
...Dewey that state too. But his loud & noisy campaign had struck no roots. He had managed to convince the voters that he had only one major policy-Russia was always right, the U.S. always wrong. Obviously, the future of Gideon's army-if it had a future-was parlous...
Southern politicos flooded the wires with calls to Washington, inquiring whether there was some way the 38 Dixiecrat votes could be shifted to the Truman column. The future of the Dixiecrats looked parlous...
...Lutheran war veterans in Richmond, Va. It all began in a veterans' Sunday-school class, which soon turned into a weekly bull session on the state of the world judged by Christian standards. Like most honest men, the ex-G.I.s found the world's state parlous. They decided to do something about it. Church attendance was poor-an average 280 per service out of a confirmed membership of almost 1,000. The veterans' plan: to jog their neighbors back to churchgoing...
Thomas E. Dewey reported a parlous situation in the governor's mansion in Albany. The bathroom in the McKinley guest suite needed a new toilet seat, but for three months, said Dewey, "the entire majesty of New York State and all the resources at its command" proved unable to find one. Shocked sympathizers promptly dispatched replacements-one by air from Tacoma, Wash...