Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew up in a small town (Sag Harbor, L.I. - pop. 2,517), also attended Cornell, but left to enlist in the Marines in World War I. Swirbul is big, hard-muscled and walks with the quick steps of a prizefighter. He is talkative, exact (Grumman is vague), with a passion for planning production to the last thousandth of an inch. These two temperamental opposites mesh into the smoothest team in the aircraft industry...
...competent teacher, and rammed the mysteries of algebra into his boys with great success.' He had 'the lust to teach-a passion apparently analogous to concupiscence or dipsomania, and, in the more extreme varieties of pedagogues, maybe quite as strong...
Ever since his return from Chicago as the Republican nominee, Tom Dewey had plugged hard at this task, consulting steadily with the nearby state organizations, ironing out intramural squabbles, quietly dropping dead wood, promoting new blood, stressing his own passion for work, unity, detailed organization, action along planned lines. His strategy was plain. He might not be able to excel Quarterback Roosevelt in gay improvisation, tricky forward passes and dazzling end runs, but Tom Dewey was going to try to win by sheer hard work, detailed planning, and power plays...
Nowhere in France had U.S. troops seen such wild jubilee, such fierce passion, such bloody retribution. At last the French believed that the Americans had come to stay. All hell broke loose...
...coined words ("inscape," "instress," "scapish"); isolated prepositions ("What life half lifts the latch of, What hell stalks towards the snatch of"); left out connectives ("Save my hero, O Hero [that] savest"). Though sensory details delighted him ("skies of couple color, as a brinded cow"), his principal passion was the relation of man and nature...