Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem to be blase it is only a pose. Why, just last Saturday over 100 of us made the one o'clock train to New York and sundry points. Nuff said...
...read the 50 or 60 factual volumes in the plain bookcase and drove in Rock' Creek Park. He threatened to move to a hotel. Major General Shelley Marietta, head of Walter Reed, talked him out of it. He refused to pose for a picture, even at the request of the War Department. To hell with the War Department. He was living out an old warrior's life...
...back in majestic bulk, the imperious, mustachioed symbol of the era of bankers and builders. Teddy Roosevelt stares through his pince-nez with impatient energy, head belligerently forward, right hand resting on table, left fist clenched at the hip. And Franklin Roosevelt relaxes, hands on chair arms, in a pose so familiar that not even the bad, sharp lines of the Albany portrait can obscure...
...Days of Trial. Sinkiang presents China with a sheaf of problems, whose solutions all the world will keenly watch. The very riches pose the first problem: for developing resources and plotting communications, have the Chinese got the necessary technical skill? Have they got adequate administrative personnel? Will they retard development of Sinkiang until industrial China is equal to the task, or call in foreign capital...
...Vichy announcer stared at the microphone, thought how good it would be to announce the end of the war. It was not quite 6:30 a.m., the hour Radio Vichy goes on the air. Dreamily he stepped up, struck a pose, said: "Mesdames and Messieurs. Today, Oct. 12, the war has ended...