Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friend of the People. In Wichita, city commissioners scheduled seven new fund-raising drives, suppressed a move by Commissioner L. A. Donnell to proclaim a "Leave Us Alone Week...
Weizmann, who would probably become president if the Zionists proclaim a Jewish state, talked to U.N., to Truman. He got nowhere, commented bitterly: "It took the British 25 years to sell us out; the Americans have done it in 2½ months...
...Bicycle riding on these premises is forbidden," proclaim signs in the Yard, but velocipeding students must have licenses for their vehicles just the same, Cambridge police pointed out yesterday...
...superior to the Marxist compromise with human nature. Capitalism does not get all it can out of The Machine, or give men all they should have. But it has left man essentially free, while it gets more out of The Machine than Marxism does. But capitalism has failed to proclaim, so that the world can hear-and that is not to capitalism's credit-the victory it has won over the argument of the Manifesto...
Freedom for the Village. To the modern eye, bloodshot from staring at much harsher art, the oils of Sloan's "Ashcan" period look purely poetic. He once clambered to the top of the Washington Square arch to proclaim Greenwich Village an independent republic, and his paintings look like dream-glimpses of such a republic-familiar, but never unpleasantly so. He crowded his painted world with plump ladies and children, always in the best of spirits and often partly undressed. And over them he sometimes succeeded in weaving a deep sparkle of color which few U.S. contemporaries could touch...