Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tender Passion. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Roosevelt Posey beat up a woman on the street whom he mistook for his missing wife, was bailed out of jail by Mrs. Posey, who suddenly turned up and explained happily, "That proves he loves...
Loud-mouthed Kenneth McKellar had been roaring against businesslike, liberal-minded TVAman Lilienthal for several years, had carried on a patronage feud with him with all the passion of a home-state mountaineer. But last week McKellar discovered that, despite his new power in the Senate, he had been boxed in. Good friend Truman had already enhanced the McKellar prestige by inviting him to attend Cabinet meetings; the Senator from Tennessee could ill afford a last-ditch patronage row at the very start of the Truman Administration...
Hysteria from Moscow. Wanted as badly by the Spanish Government as Laval was wanted by France was a commuter who stepped off a plane in Paris last week. Plain, plump Dolores Ibarruri, 50, better known as La Pasionaria ("The Passion Flower") and Republican Spain's most uninhibited orator, was returning from Moscow for the first time since 1939. In Moscow she had been a member of the executive committee of the Communist International and heroine of a Soviet play, Salud España, which closed there because the leading lady "could only make Dolores interesting by making her hysterical...
...coarseness of speech, the slang and profanity, the rude, selfish manners, loud raucous laughter, the low standards of taste . . . the passion of our vile movies, our viler music, the craze for maniacal gyrations, euphemistically called the modern dance . . . are characteristic of a growing number of our youth today...
Other towns fell in Bavaria: Oberammergau of the Passion Play, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scene of the 1936 Olympics, Dachau of evil concentration-camp fame. At Dachau 32,000 political prisoners were freed, and at nearby Moosburg the U.S. Third tore down the gates for 110,000 Allied war prisoners...