Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front, in Pittsburgh's Soldier's Hall, 2,500 America Firsters gleefully awaited the U.S. Senate's most rabid isolationist. It was 3 p.m. A reporter went backstage, showed Senator Gerald P. Nye an Associated Press bulletin, stating that his country had been attacked. Snapped Gerald Nye, all wound up for an anti-war speech: "It sounds terribly fishy to me. . . . Is it sabotage or is it pen attack...
...quiet backwater of Canada's appointive Senate, making subacid wisecracks about Mackenzie King's conduct of the war. He wants overall conscription, abolition of the excess-profits tax. He scoffs at the Prime Minister's "twilight twittering" about joint Canada-U.S. defense planning, grows rabid because Canada does not ban all U.S. periodicals with an isolationist slant. To Arthur Meighen, above all, Cana da is a unit of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...Three or four men who control the radio networks have arbitrarily shut off from the air the voice of this great gathering." With these dark words, echoed by rabid applause, Chairman John Thomas Flynn opened America First's big rally in Madison Square Garden...
...East"; Lindbergh haranguing the crowds about "new leadership"; everywhere the lines are being drawn more sharply, and the gap between isolationist and interventionist is steadily and alarmingly widening. Max Lerner, who is usually pretty well up on those things, has estimated that 25 per cent of the people are rabid interventionists, 25 per cent are steadfast isolationists, and 50 per cent are in the middle, but following the main trends of the Roosevelt foreign policy...
...Buckeyes' record gives Ohio's taxpayers a chance to crow. Supporters of the State University and its most rabid football rooters, citizens last winter demanded that Ohio State hire Paul Brown, a 32-year-old high-school coach, to replace Francis Schmidt. At Massillon (Ohio) High School, Brown had chalked up a record of only one defeat in 60 games. No one expects him to steer the Buckeyes through the season undefeated-with Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan still to play-but on his record so far Upstart Brown has done the outstanding coaching job of the year...