Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operation of the utility. And the conditions which create the current blind obedience to a demagogic and dangerous leader are deeply rooted in the facts of private ownership. If Mr. Truman cannot succeed in bluffing Mr. Lewis, then he will be sowing the wind. And the nation shall reap the whirlwind until such time as he screws up his courage to the sticking point of nationalization...
Solid & Orderly. Massachusetts' Joe Martin, a politician's politician who as leader of the opposition has had little to do in the last decade except try to keep his guerrillas in hand, would reap his reward and become Speaker of the House. Indiana's Charlie Halleck, a repentant Willkieite now in the Chicago Tribune fold, would become Majority Leader. Illinois' Leo E. Allen, an undistinguished but faithful GOPster, would become chairman of the powerful Rules Committee which controls the House's business...
...Russia does not intend to rest until she had swallowed the world or a substantial portion thereof, we could begin our preparations now and perhaps convince Comrade Stalin that the price of trying to ride roughshod over the Western democracies would not be worth the uncertain profits he might reap...
...work and reap the credit for settling the steel, coal and railroad strikes the President called in professorial White House Adviser John Steelman, let his Labor Secretary languish in the background...
Catholic Harvest. U.S. Catholicism, says Dr. Morrison, is working hard, fast and efficiently to reap the bumper harvest of souls wandering between decadent Protestantism and sterile secularism. "[The Catholic Church] is now developing and putting forward preachers who address the American public with winsome and persuasive arguments in exposition of Catholic doctrine and tradition. . . . This is a relatively new feature in American Catholicism. . . . Its evangelistic program has been exceedingly cautious. But now it feels no need of caution...