Word: redrafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worst of all is the unending throb of political oratory. Senator Taft confided that he was getting awfully tired of the sound of his own voice, reciting the same speeches day after day. But each time he tries to redraft his principal speech ("The Speech," as accompanying newsmen call it), he finds he has missed or obscured important points, so he reverts to the same old texts. Even so, he said, "I have to change them sometimes, because I can't stand them myself...
...George M. Harrison became consultant to the Office of Defense Mobilization. That was six weeks ago. Since then, Harrison has shuttled between San Francisco, Cincinnati and Washington, attended union meetings, helped to redraft his union's bylaws, met with the Railway Labor Executives Association. Not once has he hung his hat in the office set aside for him by Mobilizer Charlie Wilson. Fortnight ago, Harrison got around at last to doing something about his new responsibility. He stopped by for a chat with Wilson, and asked to be formally sworn in. That didn't mean...