Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Might I remind the General that the Hearst chain, regardless of its merits, is the product of free competition. . . . On the other hand, the military paper Stars and Stripes is strictly a monopoly in its field and therefore it must serve the purpose, if it is to further democratic ideals, of all the competitors it would have under free competition...
With it as its end product, Santayana's six decades of philosophizing may remind Christians of those tedious scientific experiments which in the end prove something that everybody had always known...
...spring) came naturally: like many primitive peoples, they had observed a springtime period of self-denial to encourage germination of their new-sown crops. Church fathers readily admitted that Lent was in part an adaptation from pagan "natural religion." Then, as now, they also thought it not unfitting to remind Christians that Lenten self-denial is a good spring tonic for body as well as soul...
...this story of thugs and trulls, enough sin and mayhem occurs (or is about to) on every page to remind U.S. readers of James M. Cain. The complete, animal innocence of its hero-a sort of Id with pants down-is funny, scary, and fascinating. But the sailor is not going to like the two missing chapters. After raising the promise of Cain for the first 207 pages, Author Butler subsides into a tea-and-marmalade finish...
Another book on the War between the States has appeared, to remind Americans that their greatest war is still the one fought in America between Americans. The Beleaguered City is a sometimes lively, sometimes somber, always exciting description of the Confederate capital during its four-year ordeal as the symbol of victory to both North and South...